Original sentence: An illegal number is a number that under some interpretations and under some legislation represents information which is illegal to possess, utter or propagate.Any information that can be represented in binary format is, ipso facto, representable as a number, and therefore if the information itself is illegal in some way, the pure number itself may be seen as illegal.To date, the idea of a number being illegal has not been tested in the courts
Edited sentence: An illegal number is a number that, according to some speculation, represents information which is illegal to possess, utter or propagate.Any information that can be represented in binary format is, ipso facto, representable as a number, and therefore if the information itself is illegal in some way, some have argued that the pure number itself may be seen as illegal.To date, the idea of a number being illegal has not been tested in the courts, and no legal commentators have endorsed the theory