Explain to me how QR codes work

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I understand the code itself is a different make up of black/white grids to get your phone to recognize a linked site. But at some point won’t we completely run out of possible image combinations making them obsolete or is it something that regenerates a new site to QR connection? (On mushrooms so I might not have asked this very well lmao)

Basically will we run out of QR codes and if not how is there an endless supply?

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QR codes are just zeroes and ones, black and white that can be converted from binary to text. You can cover up some of the code because some of the bits in the image are for redundancy and you can use some fancy math to fix the code. There are different sizes of QR codes so you can fit more content in them.

It is basically just the link or any other piece of text as ones and zeroes plus some extra to repair the text.

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