Compression of random binary data

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Wed Jul 13 09:11:16 EDT 2016


On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 07:46 pm, jonas.thornvall at gmail.com wrote:

> It is not that the data is not compressible 

Yes it is.

Until you explain how you can *reversibly* pack 10**100 inputs into 10**6
outputs without loss of information, all your explanations about "folding"
and polynomials and structure is just cheap talk.



-- 
Steven
“Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure
enough, things got worse.




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