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Maybe it's an unfair example but: the number of people on Earth. We know the quantity more or less, the leftmost digit in base ten, then it's a lot of work to f
by pmontra 3y ago
Maybe it's an unfair example but: the number of people on Earth. We know the quantity more or less, the leftmost digit in base ten, then it's a lot of work to figure out the other digits.
- Dylan16807 3y agoDefinitely unfair, because we're discussing this as a way to encode and decode a string of numbers into a single number, no measurements involved. And factoring the number of people on earth would be just as hard.