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Not impossible. You can perfectly well send say, pi, by implementing a protocol which sends 1 if the number is pi and 0 if not.
And it's about as useful as the mentioned algorithms.
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Not impossible. You can perfectly well send say, pi, by implementing a protocol which sends 1 if the number is pi and 0 if not.
And it's about as useful as the mentioned algorithms.