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Re:Why I love text files by flipper on Sunday October 17, 2010 @09:40PM (#1802004)
You could create a text file called alpha2omega.txt, which contains the line:

Look at the binary representation of pi; you'll find the sum of all human knowledge encoded there in ASCII, EBCDIC or any other code ever invented. You just need Google to index it all for you so it's useful.

Re:Why I love text files by meatsock on Sunday October 17, 2010 @10:58PM (#1802197)
i don't know if i believe its possible to represent all of everything in text, downvote or no. Besides it'd fork at least once before it got finished.