Channel: Computerphile

Category: Education

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Description: To send binary files via a text based system, they'll need encoding. Dr Steve Bagley takes us through the attachment system used in email. name change, formerly "Why Attachments are Larger in Emails" facebook.com/computerphile twitter.com/computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. More at bradyharan.com