Compression of random binary data
Thomas Jollans
tjol at tjol.eu
Mon Oct 23 05:54:34 EDT 2017
On 2017-10-23 11:32, danceswithnumbers at gmail.com wrote:
> According to this website. This is an uncompressable stream.
>
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incompressible_string
>
> 1234999988884321
No, it's not. According to that article, that string is incompressible
by a particular algorithm. I can see no more general claims.
>
> It only takes seven 8 bit bytes to represent this
>
You amaze me.
>>> bin(1234999988884321)
'0b100011000110011100111010111101000101001001101100001'
>>> len(bin(1234999988884321)[2:])
51
>>> 7 * 8
56
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