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Isn't 202TB (for comparison) way too small to contain every permutation of information? That filesize wouldn't even be able to store a film enthusiast's collection?


Well it all comes down to encoding, doesn't it. We can represent almost everything with just 0 and 1 as well, can't we? The description of that data is way bigger than the elements used to describe it of course.




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