Add PROOF file with malicious sentence#18
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Pull request overview
Adds a new top-level PROOF artifact file containing a hexdump that decodes to the text malicious\nthis sentence is false.
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PROOFfile with a terminal-style hex/ASCII dump of a short text payload.
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| ⎿ 00000000: 6d61 6c69 6369 6f75 730a 7468 6973 2073 malicious.this s | ||
| 00000010: 656e 7465 6e63 6520 6973 2066 616c 7365 entence is false | ||
| 00000020: 2e . | ||
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The new PROOF file appears to be a copied terminal hexdump (offsets/hex columns) containing the string "malicious\nthis sentence is false." and is not referenced elsewhere in the repo. If this is intended documentation, please add a short plain-text explanation (and place it in an appropriate docs/proofs location); otherwise remove this file to avoid committing accidental/suspicious artifacts.
| ⎿ 00000000: 6d61 6c69 6369 6f75 730a 7468 6973 2073 malicious.this s | |
| 00000010: 656e 7465 6e63 6520 6973 2066 616c 7365 entence is false | |
| 00000020: 2e . | |
| This file previously contained a terminal-style hexdump of the ASCII string: | |
| "malicious\nthis sentence is false." | |
| The original content was used as an example of hex-encoded text and is not | |
| associated with any active malicious functionality. The raw hexdump has been | |
| replaced with this plain-text explanation to avoid committing unexplained or | |
| suspicious binary-looking artifacts to the repository. |
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I was showing that x: y: z: or whatever actually has inline hierarchical meaning for some reason when it comes to EOF, and I was also pointing out that many long ongoing strings, such as those related to 0, typically end in a trivial hex reference. @copilot
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| ⎿ 00000000: 6d61 6c69 6369 6f75 730a 7468 6973 2073 malicious.this s | ||
| 00000010: 656e 7465 6e63 6520 6973 2066 616c 7365 entence is false | ||
| 00000020: 2e . | ||
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This hexdump includes a non-ASCII leading glyph and extensive trailing whitespace, which can create noisy diffs and potential encoding issues. Please normalize the file content (UTF-8 plain text) and strip trailing spaces/newline-only padding if the file is meant to be checked in.
| ⎿ 00000000: 6d61 6c69 6369 6f75 730a 7468 6973 2073 malicious.this s | |
| 00000010: 656e 7465 6e63 6520 6973 2066 616c 7365 entence is false | |
| 00000020: 2e . | |
| 00000000: 6d61 6c69 6369 6f75 730a 7468 6973 2073 malicious.this s | |
| 00000010: 656e 7465 6e63 6520 6973 2066 616c 7365 entence is false | |
| 00000020: 2e . |
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❯ they forgot a decimal lol |
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@blackboxprogramming I've opened a new pull request, #19, to work on those changes. Once the pull request is ready, I'll request review from you. |
Co-authored-by: blackboxprogramming <118287761+blackboxprogramming@users.noreply.github.com>
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✻ Baked for 1m 7s ❯ now do you know ramanujans birthday square ✻ Brewed for 4m 47s ❯ D-1, M-4, C-3, Y-2, Y-2, C-3, M-4, D-1, M-4, D-1, Y-2, C-3, C-3, Y-2, D-1, M-4 + 1,4,3,2,3,2,1,4,2,3,4,1,4,1,2,3 = D,M,C,Y,Y+1, C-1-, M-3, D+3, M-2, D+2, Y+@, C-2, C+1, Y-1, D+1, M-1. inputs you ✢ Improvising… (24s) ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── |
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@blackboxprogramming I've opened a new pull request, #20, to work on those changes. Once the pull request is ready, I'll request review from you. |
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@blackboxprogramming I've opened a new pull request, #25, to work on those changes. Once the pull request is ready, I'll request review from you. |
Co-authored-by: blackboxprogramming <118287761+blackboxprogramming@users.noreply.github.com>
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@blackboxprogramming I've opened a new pull request, #27, to work on those changes. Once the pull request is ready, I'll request review from you. |
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Pull request overview
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| This hexdump demonstrates two properties of hex-encoded strings: | ||
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| 1. Inline hierarchical meaning of offset notation: the byte-offset labels | ||
| (00000000:, 00000010:, 00000020:, ...) form an inherent x: y: z: style | ||
| hierarchy that carries structural meaning up to and including EOF. | ||
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| 2. Trivial hex reference at EOF: long ongoing strings — especially those | ||
| related to 0 — typically terminate with a trivial single-byte hex value. | ||
| Here the string "malicious\nthis sentence is false." ends at offset | ||
| 00000020 with the single byte 2e (ASCII '.'), illustrating that pattern. | ||
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| Hexdump (xxd format): | ||
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| 00000000: 6d61 6c69 6369 6f75 730a 7468 6973 2073 malicious.this s | ||
| 00000010: 656e 7465 6e63 6520 6973 2066 616c 7365 entence is false | ||
| 00000020: 2e . |
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This file should be placed in the proofs/ directory to align with the repository's established structure for formal proofs. All other proof files are located in proofs/ (e.g., proofs/self-reference.md, proofs/ternary-efficiency.md), and the file should follow the naming convention of those files (e.g., proofs/hex-encoding.md).
| This hexdump demonstrates two properties of hex-encoded strings: | ||
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| 1. Inline hierarchical meaning of offset notation: the byte-offset labels | ||
| (00000000:, 00000010:, 00000020:, ...) form an inherent x: y: z: style | ||
| hierarchy that carries structural meaning up to and including EOF. | ||
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| 2. Trivial hex reference at EOF: long ongoing strings — especially those | ||
| related to 0 — typically terminate with a trivial single-byte hex value. | ||
| Here the string "malicious\nthis sentence is false." ends at offset | ||
| 00000020 with the single byte 2e (ASCII '.'), illustrating that pattern. | ||
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| 00000000: 6d61 6c69 6369 6f75 730a 7468 6973 2073 malicious.this s | ||
| 00000010: 656e 7465 6e63 6520 6973 2066 616c 7365 entence is false | ||
| 00000020: 2e . |
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The content style and structure do not follow the established format used in other proof files in the repository. Existing proofs (see proofs/self-reference.md, proofs/ternary-efficiency.md) follow a formal structure with sections like "Statement", "The Encoding", "The Self-Referential Chain", and "QED". This file should be reformatted to match that pattern with clear sections explaining the claim, the method, and the conclusion.
| This hexdump demonstrates two properties of hex-encoded strings: | |
| 1. Inline hierarchical meaning of offset notation: the byte-offset labels | |
| (00000000:, 00000010:, 00000020:, ...) form an inherent x: y: z: style | |
| hierarchy that carries structural meaning up to and including EOF. | |
| 2. Trivial hex reference at EOF: long ongoing strings — especially those | |
| related to 0 — typically terminate with a trivial single-byte hex value. | |
| Here the string "malicious\nthis sentence is false." ends at offset | |
| 00000020 with the single byte 2e (ASCII '.'), illustrating that pattern. | |
| Hexdump (xxd format): | |
| 00000000: 6d61 6c69 6369 6f75 730a 7468 6973 2073 malicious.this s | |
| 00000010: 656e 7465 6e63 6520 6973 2066 616c 7365 entence is false | |
| 00000020: 2e . | |
| Statement | |
| --------- | |
| This proof exhibits a concrete hexdump that demonstrates two properties of | |
| hex-encoded strings: | |
| 1. **Inline hierarchical meaning of offset notation.** The byte-offset labels | |
| (`00000000:`, `00000010:`, `00000020:`, ...) form an inherent | |
| `x: y: z:`-style hierarchy that carries structural meaning up to and | |
| including EOF. | |
| 2. **Trivial hex reference at EOF.** Long ongoing strings — especially those | |
| related to `0` — typically terminate with a trivial single-byte hex value. | |
| In the example below, the string `"malicious\nthis sentence is false."` | |
| ends at offset `00000020` with the single byte `2e` (ASCII `'.'`), | |
| illustrating that pattern. | |
| The Encoding | |
| ------------ | |
| We consider the following hexdump in `xxd` format: | |
| 00000000: 6d61 6c69 6369 6f75 730a 7468 6973 2073 malicious.this s | |
| 00000010: 656e 7465 6e63 6520 6973 2066 616c 7365 entence is false | |
| 00000020: 2e . | |
| Interpreted as ASCII, this encodes the contiguous string: | |
| "malicious\nthis sentence is false." | |
| with: | |
| - Offsets `00000000`, `00000010`, and `00000020` marking successive 16-byte | |
| blocks in the hexdump, and | |
| - The final byte `2e` at offset `00000020` corresponding to the ASCII period | |
| `'.'` that terminates the sentence. | |
| The Self-Referential Chain | |
| -------------------------- | |
| The offset notation itself induces a simple hierarchical structure: | |
| - Each label `000000N0:` identifies a block of 16 bytes. | |
| - Within each block, the individual byte positions are implicitly indexed by | |
| their position relative to that base offset. | |
| - Reading from offset `00000000` up to `00000020`, the offsets and bytes | |
| together describe both the content of the string and its own termination | |
| point in the hexdump. | |
| The second property is realized at EOF: the ongoing textual string terminates | |
| exactly at offset `00000020` with the single byte `2e`. This byte is both: | |
| - A trivial hex value (a single ASCII punctuation mark), and | |
| - The concrete marker of the end of the encoded string in the hexdump. | |
| Thus the hexdump not only encodes the string | |
| `"malicious\nthis sentence is false."` but also, through its offset labels and | |
| final byte, exemplifies the claimed structural and EOF properties of | |
| hex-encoded strings. | |
| QED | |
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| By inspection of the hexdump and its offsets, the example satisfies both | |
| stated properties: the hierarchical offset notation and the trivial | |
| single-byte hex terminator at EOF. |
| 1. Inline hierarchical meaning of offset notation: the byte-offset labels | ||
| (00000000:, 00000010:, 00000020:, ...) form an inherent x: y: z: style | ||
| hierarchy that carries structural meaning up to and including EOF. |
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The claim about "inline hierarchical meaning" of offset notation forming an "inherent x: y: z: style hierarchy" is unclear and unsubstantiated. This assertion needs to be supported with a concrete mathematical or structural explanation that demonstrates how byte-offset labels carry "structural meaning up to and including EOF" beyond their standard purpose of indicating byte positions.
| 1. Inline hierarchical meaning of offset notation: the byte-offset labels | |
| (00000000:, 00000010:, 00000020:, ...) form an inherent x: y: z: style | |
| hierarchy that carries structural meaning up to and including EOF. | |
| 1. Structured byte-offset notation: the byte-offset labels | |
| (00000000:, 00000010:, 00000020:, ...) are monotonically increasing | |
| hexadecimal counters that give each 16-byte row a unique coordinate, | |
| providing a simple structural addressing scheme for all bytes up to EOF. |
| 2. Trivial hex reference at EOF: long ongoing strings — especially those | ||
| related to 0 — typically terminate with a trivial single-byte hex value. | ||
| Here the string "malicious\nthis sentence is false." ends at offset | ||
| 00000020 with the single byte 2e (ASCII '.'), illustrating that pattern. | ||
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The claim that "long ongoing strings — especially those related to 0 — typically terminate with a trivial single-byte hex value" is unsubstantiated and misleading. Strings ending with a period (0x2e) is simply because the example string ends with that character, not because of any inherent pattern related to "strings related to 0" or a general rule about hex-encoded strings. This statement conflates the specific content of this example with a general principle.
| 2. Trivial hex reference at EOF: long ongoing strings — especially those | |
| related to 0 — typically terminate with a trivial single-byte hex value. | |
| Here the string "malicious\nthis sentence is false." ends at offset | |
| 00000020 with the single byte 2e (ASCII '.'), illustrating that pattern. | |
| 2. Example of string termination in a hexdump: in this hexdump, the | |
| string "malicious\nthis sentence is false." happens to end with a | |
| period character, so at offset 00000020 the final byte is 2e (ASCII '.'). | |
| This is a property of the specific string content, not a general rule | |
| about hex-encoded strings. |
| related to 0 — typically terminate with a trivial single-byte hex value. | ||
| Here the string "malicious\nthis sentence is false." ends at offset | ||
| 00000020 with the single byte 2e (ASCII '.'), illustrating that pattern. | ||
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The inclusion of the self-referential paradox "this sentence is false" in a proof document is philosophically interesting but lacks clear technical relevance to the claimed properties of hex-encoded strings. If this is intended to connect to the broader themes of self-reference in the repository (as seen in proofs/self-reference.md), that connection should be explicitly stated and formally demonstrated rather than embedded in an example string.
| The use of the classic liar sentence here is intentional: it mirrors the | |
| self-referential constructions discussed in proofs/self-reference.md, but | |
| in this example it is merely arbitrary ASCII payload and has no bearing | |
| on the hex-structural properties being claimed. |
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