Peegee
09-11-2004, 08:31 AM
As I understand it, a file is basically a huge string of binary digits. If you take the sum of these digits you get a number. Here's my possibly illogical/irrational/nonsensical idea: take the huge 'number' and somehow convert it into an equation or something. Then have (any) computer calculate said equation, and write out the output in binary form, on the disk drive.
If anything I said even made sense, it should 'copy' the original file into other computers. If this could potentially work, a problem I came up with is that variable size isn't really that big (is it long or float or something else that's the longest? And it's only like 2^32 bits?).
Could this even work? I've been thinking about this without research for a while, and it's bugging me. Just a 'PG I'm stealing your idea' or 'PG you're stupid' (a bit more verbose actually) would suffice.
If anything I said even made sense, it should 'copy' the original file into other computers. If this could potentially work, a problem I came up with is that variable size isn't really that big (is it long or float or something else that's the longest? And it's only like 2^32 bits?).
Could this even work? I've been thinking about this without research for a while, and it's bugging me. Just a 'PG I'm stealing your idea' or 'PG you're stupid' (a bit more verbose actually) would suffice.