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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The thing about QR codes is they aren’t just a short code that links to the URL, they are the entire URL. It’s the equivalent of converting the URL into binary and then drawing the resulting 1s and 0s as black and white squares.

Therefore as long as we don’t “run out” of URLs we won’t run out of QR codes.

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