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I wrote a simple Processing sketch that returns binary values of characters from a split file (one letter per line), with an appended “0.” in front – this essentially makes this a single very complex number that holds all the information of the text. Above is Shakespeare’s 51st sonnet stored as a number.
Based on a thought in Gary William Flake’s “The Computational Beauty of Nature” (pg 21). As Flake describes it, “Now take a long number and put a zero and a decimal point in front of it. We’ve just translated one huge number into a rational number between 0 and 1. By placing this single point at exactly the right spot on the number line, we can store an unlimited amount of information.”
I think especially interesting is the idea that rather than the sonnet be translated to a number between 0 and a giant number (say 100 trillion, etc), the number is only between 0-1 but occupies a very specific point on the number line. The resulting number is unique and no other text has that exact value.
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Source code:
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BufferedReader reader; String tempLine; char c; int numLines = 0; PrintWriter writer; void setup() { try { reader=createReader("Sonnet51_Split.txt"); writer = createWriter("TextAsData.txt"); writer.print("0."); while ((tempLine = reader.readLine ()) != null) { c = tempLine.charAt(0); writer.print(binary(c)); } writer.flush(); writer.close(); } catch (IOException e) { println("Error reading file!"); println(e); } exit(); } |
