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[–] livingcoder@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Is there an algorithm or number such that we could basically pirate data from it by saying "start digit 9,031,643,679 with length 5,345,109 is an MP4 of Shrek"? Something that we could calculate in a day or less?

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Similarly: if you write a program to randomly run through all the combinations of pixels on a decently large screen (say, 1080p) you will eventually see every important question and answer that can be expressed on a screen.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

The short answer is no, and even if we could, the digit index you'd start at would have a larger binary representation than the actual data you were trying to encode.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could we already do this by leveraging the Library of Babel?

Genuinely asking, I'm not really sure.

[–] rain_worl@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

you can bookmark(?) pages