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Jan Sloot, Dutch computer scientist and electronics technician (born 1945)

Sloot Digital Coding System

Lost data sharing technique

The Sloot Digital Coding System is an alleged data sharing technique that its inventor claimed could store a complete digital movie file in 8 kilobytes of data — which, if true, would dramatically disprove Shannon's source coding theorem, a widely accepted principle of…
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