On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, geiger wrote:
Most of the time, if you have several abstractions of the same type in a patch, they do the same thing, so nothing is lost. If your patch only has one abstraction of each type, there is no problem anyhow.
I'll send you a virus that will rename all files to each other's name as long as they have the same file type. Nothing will be lost. :-]
Or rather, I can prove you that the amount of information that you will lose will be insignificant, that is, a sum of logs of factorials. If you have 750 jpegs and 300 pdfs and I scramble their filenames, you only lose log2(750!)+log2(300!) = 8128 bits = ONLY ONE KILOBYTE! imagine that compared to the humongous size of the pictures and documents!
what's missing in that reasoning: the bits lost are not as important as the patience lost.
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