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Microsoft to Copyright Pi, Found to Contain Entire Arial Font (sebastiancarlos.com)

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[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The short answer is no, and even if we could, the digit index you'd start at would have a larger binary representation than the actual data you were trying to encode.

[–] AeroLemming@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Yep. Not always larger necessarily, but close to the same size on average, or maybe a little smaller if the domain is limited and compression can be applied. Not really useful.