YOU TAKE YOUR INFORMATION,
your encyclopedia text, and you transpose it into numerics. You assign everything a two-digit number, periods and commas included."
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sand
00 is a blank, Ais 01, B is 02, and so on.
Then after you've lined them all up, you put a decimal point before the whole lot.
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So now you've got a very long
sub-decimal fraction. 0.173000631...
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Next, you engrave a mark
at exactly that point along the toothpick.
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If 0.50000's your exact
middle on the toothpick, then 0.3333's got to be a third of the way from the tip.
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That's how
you can fit data of any length in a sinlge point on a toothpick.
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