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You know you've been working with computers for a while when reading the title immmediately evokes 18446... in your mind.

I was expecting the article to at least mention Kolmogorov complexity, or perhaps the demoscene (there are, surprisingly enough, 8-byte entries there.)

>>userbi+(OP)
I mention Kolmogorov complexity in the form of "shortest description lengths" at

> This property mirrors a notion of optimality for shortest description lengths, where it’s known as the Invariance theorem:

with the latter linking to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity#Invarian...