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Here's the text of the patent: image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsea…

Related concepts: - Shanon Entropy and Information Theory: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrop… - Kolmogorov complexity: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmog… - Landauer limit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landau…

We will make videos explaining this work further soon™. This is just the tip of the iceberg. I'm also eager to share our other works soon as I believe they will have far reaching impacts.

I consider base conversion an important yet largely unaddressed area of study for computer science. There's a lot more work to be done regarding generalization and efficient transcoding.

Typical industry methods are about 75% efficient.

We've deployed these principles to disciplines outside of QR codes. For example, by using our arbitrary base conversion libraries, Cyphr.me's database backend is 100% efficient. It is informationally impossible to store data more efficiently.

Arbitrary base conversion is especially useful for cryptographic digests, as they have a small and known size (for example, 256 bits). This limits the amount of computation needed for conversion. Compute is cheap; keeping storage costs down is more significant than ever.

Instead of depending on compression for storage efficiency gains, as most of the industry currently does, further gains are only realized by efficient encoding. One method of realizing efficient encoding is base conversion.

Since cryptography is informationally efficient, compression results (on average) in **larger** outputs. You read that right! Compressing cryptographic payloads results in larger, not smaller, outputs. Compression is useless for cryptography.

Good cryptography is **incompressible** because it is maximally entropic. Incompressibility is a hallmark of efficient information encoding.

What's arbitrary base conversion? See the example encoding the ASCII JSON "Hello World!" into DNA. (Yes, you read that right, encoding JSON into DNA!)

Play with the tool and have fun! The best way to gain an intuitive understanding of base conversion is to play with base conversion. convert.zamicol.com/#?inAlph…

Here's our patent in practice: HTTPS://CYPHR.ME/AC/1F8LKEWC…

Our QR codes are 22.8% smaller than the industry standard, which means they are easier to read, easier for users to scan, and less prone to errors.

Among other things, the patent covers using arbitrary base conversion to efficiently represent URLs with arbitrary payloads in QR codes. This results in QR codes that are much smaller in size for a given level of security.