On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 13:40:59 +0000, Neil Cerutti wrote: > On 2017-10-23, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 11:18 PM, alister via Python-list >><python-list@python.org> wrote: >>> On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 10:41:55 +0100, Paul Moore wrote: >>> >>>> On 23 October 2017 at 10:32, <danceswithnumb...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> According to this website. This is an uncompressable stream. >>>>> >>>>> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incompressible_string >>>>> >>>>> 1234999988884321 >>>>> >>>>> It only takes seven 8 bit bytes to represent this >>>> >>>> Would you care to provide the seven 8-bit bytes you propose to use? >>>> Paul >>> >>> I would suspect he is using BCD & storing 2 values in reach byte that >>> is not what is meant by you cant compress random data. his compression >>> is simply removing redundant space from an inefficient coding >> >> I suspect he is using ASCII and storing one value in each byte. > > There's also ZSCII, which stores roughly 3 characters every 2 bytes. > Since all the digits are in A2, this sequence would take up 7 bytes in > ZSCII as well. > > http://inform-fiction.org/zmachine/standards/z1point0/sect03.html
not sure how 16 characters can be represented by either ascii or zscii in only 8 bytes -- I fear explanations explanatory of things explained. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
