gwern comments on Less Wrong: Open Thread, September 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 08 September 2010 02:13:28PM 0 points [-]

If you really can only distinguish those 255 colors, then you could associate each color with a single unique byte, and a sequence of n cards becomes a single bitstring with n*8 bits in it. For additional flavor, add some sort of compression.

This is so elementary that I must be misunderstanding you somehow.