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In article <974@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn) writes:
>Let's say I take all the information in all the encyclopedieas and
>reference books and catalogs of biochemical compounds and make and ASCII
>text file out of them, and then come up with an umpteen-zillion long
>decimal number that represents this long text file, and then construct a
>ruler one inch long calibrated to the umpteen-zillionth of an inch.  I
>can now specify a single point in an inch representing all the knowledge
>in the world. . .

I never said anything about simplicity.  What you have is an EASY method of
encoding.  The more you encode, the more information you need to decode, the
more time it will take to decode the code.  Therefore if forty-two is indeed
the hyper-encoded answer, the end result may take several billions of years
to work itself out.  Or I could be wrong and forty-two is the answer, and
someone forgot to turn off the ...

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