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as the size of the document grows to infinity.

Therein lies the problem.

Also the fact that it would need to be constrained to 7-bit ASCII only, and on top of that be "valid" in its natural language. It's a neat trick to make two documents look completely different with the same hash, but looking at the techniques which are required, they all rely on a binary file format and copious amounts of data which are effectively "hidden" --- all of which do not apply to a text file.



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