Compression of random binary data
Steve D'Aprano
steve+python at pearwood.info
Wed Oct 25 22:16:42 EDT 2017
On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 08:22 am, danceswithnumbers at gmail.com wrote:
> with each pass you can compress untill the entropy is so random it can no
> longer be comressed.
Which is another way of saying that you cannot compress random binary data.
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Steve
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