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Irrational numbers are an infinite source of information. (lemmy.world)
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They're probably the only things that "create" information in the sense that you can always grab another slice. Thank you delicious pi!

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[-] uis@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

How you express something doesn't change the amount of information is contained in the message.

Welcome to the world of entropy coding.

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