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Re:Apple and Facebook helped bust the world's biggest torren... by Redoubts on Friday July 22, 2016 @09:41AM (#12143415)
It can be identified by it, but you can't reproduce it from the number anymore than you could from the title alone.
Re:Apple and Facebook helped bust the world's biggest torren... by Jtsummers on Friday July 22, 2016 @09:43AM (#12143421)
Actually, a movie could be represented by a fairly large (infinite even) number of integers that could allow you to fully reproduce or render it. Checksums, however, are merely digital equivalents to titles or other identifiers. They let you know identity, but not content.