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Ahhh, Sloot's digital coding system [1] is finally here ;).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloot_Digital_Coding_System

In the [Sloot Digital Coding System], it is claimed that no movies are stored, only basic building blocks of movies, such as colours and sounds. So, when a number is presented to the SDCS, it uses the number to fetch colours and sounds, and constructs a movie out of them. Any movie. No two different movies can have the same number, otherwise they would be the same movie. Every possible movie gets its own unique number. Therefore, I should be able to generate any possible movie by loading some unique number in the SDCS.

Guy named Borges already patented that, I'm afraid.

You just need an index and length within Pi's digits, duh.

It sounds almost like someone explained content-addressed storage to him and he misunderstood (where you can uniquely identify a movie by number, down to some hopefully a negligible collision likelihood, but you're merely indexing known data)

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