4 alphabets

[jbenet]

I propose:

4 alphabets:

• 😊 be256 - 1 emoji 1 byte
• 😀 be512 - 1 emoji 2 bytes
• 😃 be768 - 1 emoji 3 bytes
• 😄 be1024 - 1 emoji 4 bytes

notes:

• emoji are unicode, and we're picking alphabets, we already have tables at play.
• there's 1244 emoji, we could sacrifice 4 to be alphabet identifiers. I suggest those above (increasing in happiness 😄 ).
• Each should be contained in the other, so there's no ambiguity on what number they represent.
• You get a smiley face at the beginning of every (self-describing) emoji-text!! (it would make me so happy)
• if there is no leading encoding identifier (quirksmode), you assume the smallest alphabet possible (when you run into a character from a larger set you bump up to that. statistically, we're very unlikely to find sequences of bytes like: ([0-256]000)+ -- ie. [10, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, ... ])

[ deleted a portion in which jbenet utterly fails to do simple math ]

Guys, be1024 is going to be huge sweet.

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updates:

• added 🔥 to sha1, and "(+1 alphabet)"
• deleted math fail in which I claimed the equivalent of 2^10 = 2^32

[pfrazee]

just to note, sha1 is 160 bits long, so that example truncates it to 40 bits. a be1024 of the full sha1 would be 17 chars (1 encoding + 16 data)

[jbenet]

@pfraze

5 char/hash * 4 byte/char * 8 bits/byte = 160 bits/hash

(i had to triple check)

but yeah, i missed + 1 char for encoding (corrected above). sad to loose a whole 1024 bits on encoding char.

[pfrazee]

i think youre miscalculating how many bits you can pack into a be1024 emoji. at most it's 10, right? 2^10 = 1024. you're saying 4 bytes, which would be 32 bits. we'd need 4,294,967,296 emojis for that

[jbenet]

@pfraze arghhhhhh you're totally right. idk what the hell I was thinking with 4 byte/char.

[pfrazee]

hah no worries, i did the same in some of the other issues

[jbenet]

yeah, i'm way less excited about be1024 now.

what are there 65,536 of? (... there's ~50,000 kanji's. but i think that'd be way worse than looking at a hash, or even raw ascii.)