Compression of random binary data
Peter Pearson
pkpearson at nowhere.invalid
Tue Oct 24 17:18:10 EDT 2017
On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 14:51:37 +1100, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 01:27 pm, danceswithnumbers at gmail.com wrote:
> Yes! Decode reverse is easy......sorry so excited i could shout.
Then this should be easy for you:
http://marknelson.us/2012/10/09/the-random-compression-challenge-turns-ten/
All you need to do is compress this file:
http://marknelson.us/attachments/million-digit-challenge/AMillionRandomDigits.bin
to less than 415241 bytes, and you can win $100.
Then, on Mon, 23 Oct 2017 21:13:00 -0700 (PDT), danceswithnumbers wrote:
> I did that quite a while ago.
But 352,954 kb > 415241 bytes, by several orders of magnitude; so
you didn't "do that". (Or are we using the European decimal point?)
If you're claiming 352,954 *bytes*, not kb, I invite you to explain
why you have not collected Mark Nelson's $100 prize, and untold fame
and glory; failing which, your credibility will evaporate.
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