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Re: System disks on Asimov
In article <45f5b54c$0$14129$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com> wrote:
>(Theoretically, you could try changing those 8,881 carriage returns to line
>feeds until you successfully unpacked the archive. This is computationally
>infeasible, since it amounts to testing all valid combinations of an 8881-bit
>number.)
It's probably possible to reduce it to a linear problem rather than an
exponential, but I'm not volunteering to examine all 8881 CRs to
determine if it's supposed to be an LF.
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