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A team of scientists has unveiled how the hippocampus orchestrates multiple memory processes, including encoding new information, forming memories, and retrieving them. A team of scientists from the ...

Everything on a computer is at its core a binary number, since computers do everything with bits that represent 0 and 1. In order to have a file that is "plain text", so human readable with minimal ...

Python supports encodings that correspond to some code pages on Windows, like cp437 or cp1252. But every such encoding should be specially implemented. There are code pages that do not have ...

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The Vigènere Cipher is a method of encrypting alphabetic text by using a form of polyalphabetic substitution, which was developed in the 16th century by French cryptographer Blaise de Vigenère. It ...

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