2024-02-08 UTC
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capjamesg Consider a text document. It might be "encoded" using a particular sequence of supported letters. The document may only support A-Z, or it may support some symbols, or it may support every character used in every language. At the low level, there is a system that is turning those letters into numbers that the computer understands. That's encoding. There is a standard key that says A is 01, B is 10, C is 11, etc. and you're turning the lett