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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Actually, there'd only be single pixels past digit 225 in the last example, if I understand you correctly.

If we can choose encoding, we can "cheat" by effectively embedding whatever we want to find in the encoding. The existence of every substring in a one of a set of ordinary encodings might not even be a weaker property than a fixed encoding, though, because infinities can be like that.