Compression of random binary data

[Tim Golden]

On 24/10/2017 16:40, Lele Gaifax wrote:
> Steve D'Aprano <steve+python at pearwood.info> writes:
> 
>> But given an empty file, how do you distinguish the empty file you get
>> from 'music.mp3' and the identical empty file you get from 'movie.avi'?
> 
> That's simple enough: of course one empty file would be
> "music.mp3.zip.zip.zip", while the other would be

I swear this looks like the lyrics of something or another...

"Music MP3 - zip - zip - zip"

TJG