They’re probably the only things that “create” information in the sense that you can always grab another slice. Thank you delicious pi!

  • Deebster@infosec.pub
    82·
    7 days ago

    I don’t see why not, it’s just numbers, which is all we store most data as.

    You could use it as a source of pseudorandom numbers to encrypt an infinite data steam, e.g. we’ll encrypt using e, starting at position 40468.

      • uis@lemm.ee
        4·
        6 days ago

        It is not. If I in July in Europe will say “there is no snow outside”, I give you very little information. If in same conditions I will say “there is snow outside”, I will give a lot of information.

        Amount of information is proportional to (logarithm of) improbability of outcome.