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Compressing a flag to 11 bits


I recently saw an interesting YouTube video by “Physics for the Birds”. The main video is about matrixes, but he used flags to explain some of the operations on matrixes: He broke down how you could break down flags across its axes to represent them as matrixes, and save some storage space.

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