It can all go to zero

Re:It can all go to zero by em3rgent0rdr on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @02:58PM (#16161743)

Governments outlawing of numbers has been going on for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number

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Re:It can all go to zero by oreo81 on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @03:44PM (#16162333)

All those of those are examples of numbers that have already been discovered, not preemptively banning numbers yet to be found.

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Re:It can all go to zero by em3rgent0rdr on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @05:34PM (#16163396)

They still pre-emptively ban numbers, for instance if they represent something illegal: "Any image file or an executable program can be regarded as simply a very large binary number. In certain jurisdictions, there are images that are illegal to possess, due to obscenity or secrecy/classified status, so the corresponding numbers could be illegal."

Also, the concept of "numbers yet to be found" is philosophically questionable.

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