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A wheel turning twenty-three times a second, filmed at twenty-four

Sample a wave and you lose the difference between it and every wave a multiple of the sampling rate away — not approximately, exactly: the numbers you record are the same numbers. A wheel turning 23 times a second filmed at 24 frames looks like one slow turn backwards, and a 30 kHz tone recorded at 44.1 kHz comes back as an audible 14.1 kHz. The fold is at half the rate and there is nothing on the far side of it.

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The model is part of the message

Look at the previous letter and the Gettysburg Address falls from 4.12 bits a character to 2.99. Look at the previous four and it falls to 0.35, which sounds like a triumph and is a model that has memorised the text: the table you would have to send costs 11,466 bits, and the address is 11,664 bits as plain bytes. The same letters shuffled tell you which part of the fall was structure and which was memory.

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A wheel turning twenty-three times a second, filmed at twenty-four

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It looks like one slow turn backwards. Not roughly, and not because the camera is bad: the frames it records are exactly the frames a wheel turning once a second the other way would have given it. There is no measurement you could make on the recording that would tell you which wheel was in the room.

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The model is part of the message

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The Gettysburg Address is 1,458 characters — 11,664 bits if you send it as bytes. Count how often each character appears and the same text is 6,008 bits. Look at the previous character as well and it is 4,360. Look at the previous four and it is 509 bits, which is twenty-three times smaller than the bytes you started with and sounds like a triumph.

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