The One-Way Function

There should be no collisions. If we like printed them each on a clear sheet of vellum or whatever, and we laid them over each other, there shouldn't be any places where they like overlapped exactly. So it's a one-way function. This was sort of an interesting thing to think about because all of these things that we're doing with mathematical operations are kind of like destroying information.

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