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[–] 19374734? 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Gematria. Why are people so stupid???
Gematria is a form of text encoding. Nothing more. It's just like Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) or Huffman compression.
What's different is that Gematria has a constant dictionary and a variable encoding. The above methods, Huffman for example, use a variable dictionary and a constant encoding.
Using a constant dictionary of A=1, B=2, C=3, etc. the phrase "This is a test" reduces to the number 149, the sum of the letters. The encodings are variable because 149 could also be "Twenty five", "skull and bones", "sixtysix", "Champions League", and "Arizone State".
149 could be ANY STRING of letters that add to 149. One must use context and other factors in deciding what a number means.
How many times must I repeat myself? Gematria is text encoding. It's not a secret art or occult secret.
[–] 19375107? [S] ago
I bet you're read every single Q drop at least once
[–] 19375035? ago (edited ago)
These are boomer retards....that's why.
They watch too much TV.
[–] 19375018? ago
Oh, Huffman compression. Why didn't you say so. That makes perfect sense.
[–] 19376595? ago (edited ago)
Huffman compression creates a binary tree of the most common bytes in an input file. The path through the tree to any specific byte is often shorter, in terms of bits, than the length of a byte.
Shorter codes equal smaller file.