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Re:The Friendship That Made Google Huge by nyc111 on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @01:09AM (#18596785)
> On Sanjay’s monitor, a thick column of 1s and 0s appeared, each row representing an indexed word. Sanjay pointed: a digit that should have been a 0 was a 1.

I was curious how he can see "a digit that should have been a 0 was a 1" in a "thick column of 1s and 0s"? Can you give a specific example. I'm not questioning that he did but I'd like to know a specific example.

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Re:The Friendship That Made Google Huge by stdplaceholder on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @01:23AM (#18596842)
For example the high bit in blocks of ASCII text will always be zero. In a binary dump it would appear as a column of zeros.
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Re:The Friendship That Made Google Huge by nyc111 on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @07:56AM (#18598966)
Ok. So you don't need to actually "read" and understand the binary code like you are reading a programming language. You look for out of place numbers.
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