Compression of random binary data

Ian Kelly ian.g.kelly at gmail.com
Tue Oct 24 17:24:53 EDT 2017


On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 12:20 AM, Gregory Ewing
<greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> danceswithnumbers at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> I did that quite a while ago. 352,954 kb.
>
>
> Are you sure? Does that include the size of all the
> code, lookup tables, etc. needed to decompress it?

My bet is that danceswithnumbers does indeed have a file of that size
which is in some way derived from the million random digits, but
without any means of losslessly "decompressing" it (thus making it
junk data).



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