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Re:Shortest bit sequence that's never been sent over the Int... by candiodari on Thursday April 19, 2018 @12:06AM (#16873263)
>>> len(''.join(map(lambda x: bin(ord(x))[2:], "I'm wrong")))

61

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Re:Shortest bit sequence that's never been sent over the Int... by schoen on Thursday April 19, 2018 @12:54AM (#16873418)
Hee hee!

But your joke is probably more precise if you write it as

8 * len("I'm wrong")

since the leading 0 bits still get sent on printable ASCII characters.

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Re:Shortest bit sequence that's never been sent over the Int... by james_a_craig on Thursday April 19, 2018 @11:07AM (#16876527)
Come on, you need to encode it if you're counting bytes not characters, even if that's equivalent for this particular string. :)

8*len("I'm wrong".encode('utf-8'))

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