danceswithnumb...@gmail.com wrote:
1234999988884321
It only takes seven 8 bit bytes to represent this
This is not surprising. The theoretical minimum size
for 16 arbitrary decimal digits is:
log2(10) * 16 = 53.15 bits = 6.64 bytes
I think you misunderstand what is meant by the phrase
"random data cannot be compressed".
A string of decimal digits represented in ASCII is
*not* completely random. There are 256 possible values
for each byte, and you're only using 10 of them.
What you *can't* do is compress 16 random decimal
digits to less than 6.64 bytes.
If you have something that you think can do better
than that, we would like to see it.
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