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This is kind of silly, because waiters don't remember orders in bits, but... If the menu has 32 items, an order of one item fits into 5 bits, without any compr
by Cpoll 2y ago
This is kind of silly, because waiters don't remember orders in bits, but...
If the menu has 32 items, an order of one item fits into 5 bits, without any compression. In reality, if the steak is popular, you can save more bits with Huffman coding.
- Asraelite 2y agoExactly. OP is implying that even a single item is too much for them to remember and they would need a notepad, so I must be misinterpreting what they mean by "bit".