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umvi ◴[] No.45066011[source]
Note this is "coding" as in "encoding" and "decoding" (i.e. information theory) and not as in "programming"
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madcaptenor ◴[] No.45066539[source]
Also not as in "cryptography".
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goku12 ◴[] No.45066828[source]
Just curious. I can see how anyone may confuse coding with programming. And coding is related to cryptography through information theory. But what makes you think of cryptography when you hear coding? How does that confusion arise?
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1. Illniyar ◴[] No.45068403[source]
Encoding and encrypting is often used synonymously and many times simultaneously. Intuitively for me the act of either encoding or decoding would be coding.