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threepipeproblm
on April 19, 2018
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Shortest bit sequence that's never been sent over ...
Reminds me of the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_paradox
grkvlt
on April 20, 2018
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Yeah, I sort of assumed that the Berry paradox was going to be the point too - Anyone who found the shortest bit sequence could never display it on a web page since that would cause its transmission over the Internet, making it ineligible...
Dylan16807
on April 20, 2018
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Displaying a series of bits on a web page doesn't cause that series of bits to be transmitted.
grkvlt
on April 23, 2018
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Yeah, I realise that, but what if there was a link to a binary with those bits, etc.
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