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Show HN: Alphabinary Encoding

3 pointsby spbover 8 years ago

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spbover 8 years ago
So, this is an idea I had a while back, inspired by how ideas like [illegal primes][] are fundamentally irrepressible as free speech, due to the intrinsically fluid nature of abstract data.<p>It&#x27;s not just useful on a free-speech axis, though: in terms of just bare usability, it opens the door for a simple way to represent arbitrary numbers (like IP addresses) mnemonically, without having to lug around huge arbitrary dictionaries that might have proprietary restrictions to them, like the one what3words uses to encode geo coordinates.<p>I&#x27;m interested in hearing what uses Hacker News readers could come up with for this, and other thoughts around these kinds of concepts.<p>[illegal primes]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Illegal_prime" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Illegal_prime</a>
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