Posted on December 28, 2024 
by arslohgo
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“Power Supply” is a poem written in the basic language of digital communication – a representation of the power supply for the reproduction of a version of the content that can be read and printed with a computer. This linguistic transformation is only one —ultimately very rudimentary—of many possibilities of reproduction.
How to read this picture? Well, it’s a process of three steps: Counting and separating, converting to decimal values, assigning the decimal values and reading the symbols/characters from an ASCII table.
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The text must be divided into groups of eight bits each, and each of these binary groups stands for a letter or a control character. However, only two characters are used to structure the form: the line feed and the carriage return (sounds like an antiquated typewriter).
The “calculation” is not complicated at all. The desired decimal number corresponds to the sum of the binary numbers times their power of 2. For the first group, this looks like this:
| 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
2^7 2^6 2^5 2^4 2^3 2^2 2^1 2^0
0 + 64 + 32 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 1 = 97
Starting with the rightmost binary number and the power of 0, the power increases by 1 with each additional digit to the left. Multiply the binary number by 2 to the corresponding power and add the results to get the desired decimal number. 97 corresponds to the letter “a”.
The end result is seven stanzas with seven or eight lines each.