Show HN: A web page to demonstrate that files can be thought of as numbers

Posted by iAmSean on Monday April 06, 2020 @06:12AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://smchughinfo.github.io/howbig/file-as-a-number.html

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Re:Show HN: A web page to demonstrate that files can be thou... by iAmSean on Monday April 06, 2020 @06:14AM (#22792287)

The intended audience is people who are just learning about programming. I made it after trying to explain this concept twice and completely confusing everyone both times. Any suggestions or things you notice that are wrong or aren't clear?

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Re:Show HN: A web page to demonstrate that files can be thou... by jujodi on Monday April 06, 2020 @03:06PM (#22796768)

It's not clear why anyone just learning about programming would need to know this, but somehow already know what unicode and binary are?

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Re:Show HN: A web page to demonstrate that files can be thou... by kburman on Monday April 06, 2020 @01:34PM (#22795787)

Next, you should check hash like MD5.

Now you can represent any file in a fixed-size string. How cool is that?

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