Compression of random binary data

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 11:18 PM, alister via Python-list
<python-list at python.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 10:41:55 +0100, Paul Moore wrote:
>
>> On 23 October 2017 at 10:32,  <danceswithnumbers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> According to this website. This is an uncompressable stream.
>>>
>>> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incompressible_string
>>>
>>> 1234999988884321
>>>
>>> It only takes seven 8 bit bytes to represent this
>>
>> Would you care to provide the seven 8-bit bytes you propose to use?
>> Paul
>
> I would suspect he is using BCD & storing 2 values in reach byte
> that is not what is meant by you cant compress random data.
> his compression is simply removing redundant space from an inefficient
> coding

I suspect he is using ASCII and storing one value in each byte.

ChrisA