On 07/13/2016 03:46 AM, jonas.thornv...@gmail.com wrote: > It is not that the data is not compressible i just need more chunks > or random data, it is the footprint of the algorithm that has a > certain it is a structure afterall albeit richer in interpretation > than the numerical field.
Err, no, that does not apply to "random." If the data is truly random then it does not matter whether you have 5 bytes or 5 GB. There is no pattern to discern, and having more chunks of random data won't make it possible to compress. > You exchange size for computational complexity, but that may be true > for any compression algorithm. People are taking issue with your claim that you can compress random data. Clearly you cannot, by your own admission about requiring more chunks of data (see above), and also by the irrefutable logical principles Steven D'Aprano layed out. Probably time to mute this thread. It's not related to Python. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
