Compression of random binary data
Peter Pearson
pkpearson at nowhere.invalid
Sun Jan 28 12:53:33 EST 2018
On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 21:26:06 -0800 (PST), pendrysammuel at gmail.com wrote:
> If it is then show him this
>
> 387,420,489
>=
> 00110011 00111000 00110111 00101100 00110100 00110010 00110000 0 ...
To save the casual reader a moment of disorientation, the
above binary string is just the ASCII representation of the
text string "387,420,489".
> 9^9 = ⬇️ (^ = to the power of)
>= 387,420,489
>
> But
>
> 9^9
>=
> 00111001 01011110 00111001
Similarly, this is the ASCII representation of "9^9". Our
self-confessedly intermittently sober correspondent appears to have
discovered the backside of the principle that a short text expression
can generate a large number.
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