The Senses: Simulating Taste and Smell

You need 24 bits (3 bytes) to simulate color. That’s 24 ones and zeros. How many bits are necessary to simulate taste? Or smell?

Correction: You would need 584 bits to express smell, not 654 (Simon made a mistake in the original calculation).

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