Algorithm that makes maximum compression of completly diffused data.

Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Mon Nov 4 23:36:44 EST 2013


On Tue, 05 Nov 2013 04:33:46 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> On Mon, 04 Nov 2013 14:34:23 -0800, jonas.thornvall wrote:
> 
>> Den måndagen den 4:e november 2013 kl. 15:27:19 UTC+1 skrev Dave Angel:
>>> On Mon, 4 Nov 2013 05:53:28 -0800 (PST), jonas.thornvall at gmail.com
>>> wrote:
> [...]
>>> > This is not the solution but this is why it is working.
>>> 
>>> > 65536=256^2=16^4=***4^8***=2^16
> 
> "this" being Jonas' alleged lossless compression method capable of
> compressing random data.

/facepalm

I meant "it", not "this", as in "why it (the compression method) is 
working". Sorry for any confusion.



-- 
Steven



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