👉 Dark sum is a concept in information theory, specifically in the context of coding and storage. It refers to a quantity that represents the total amount of information that can be stored without losing any significant portion of information. This concept is particularly useful for storing large amounts of data or for implementing efficient encoding schemes. In terms of coding and storage, it allows us to represent a set of symbols (data) as a sum of independent symbols (bits), where each bit represents the presence or absence of a particular
