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		jodrellblank on Jan 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Images Created from Prime Numbers 1GB of storage is a single number with 2^8billion binary digits. Everything we do in computers is encoding information in long numbers. Every character is a single number, every file is, every disk image is, every state of RAM, every database, every cache, every piece of source code.

lonelappde on Jan 13, 2020 [–]

Not encoded as, but can be interpreted as. Any precisely specified object can be interpreted as a number.

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