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by chunkyks 1716 days ago
Amateur.

Use the whole space [32x32x3 bytes = 3072 bytes] to encode a Busy Beaver.
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H8crilA 1716 days ago
It's still at most n^m different images.
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chunkyks 1716 days ago
True, but the posed question was "how much information can a small image contain", not "how many unique images are there"
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H8crilA 1716 days ago
Those are the same things ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_theory

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jstanley 1716 days ago
What's the distinction?

Specifying an element from a set of 2^n members seems equivalent to encoding n bits of information.

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