Re:93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019)
by pmontra on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @10:33AM
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Maybe it's an unfair example but: the number of people on Earth. We know the quantity more or less, the leftmost digit in base ten, then it's a lot of work to figure out the other digits.
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Re:93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019)
by Dylan16807 on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @01:04PM
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Definitely unfair, because we're discussing this as a way to encode and decode a string of numbers into a single number, no measurements involved.
And factoring the number of people on earth would be just as hard.