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[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Even if every single person in the world had a unique gender, you could store that in 33 bits

You can store that in a small QR code

[–] Floey@lemm.ee 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Those bits wouldn't really provide the information to construct that gender though.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 6 points 3 days ago

Neither would if you stored it as a bit