Compression of random binary data

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Mon Oct 23 05:21:54 EDT 2017


On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 8:06 PM,  <danceswithnumbers at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ridiculous? Ludicrous??
>
> Harsh words! First let me clarify before you lump this in with perpetual motion, or cold fusion. It is a mapping solution to compress ANY i repeat ANY random file with numbers of only 0 - 9 such as are in the million rand numbers page. Entirely possible. Since i did it, not by hiding data anywhere then it must be conjecture not law.
>

Where did you get the idea that you start with a representation that
uses ten symbols (0-9) and uses an entire byte for each one? Where is
that stated?

ChrisA



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