Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz>: > What you *can't* do is compress 16 random decimal digits to less than > 6.64 bytes.
More precisely: Regardless of the compression scheme, the probability of shortening the next bit sequence is less than 0.5 if the bits are distributed evenly, randomly and independently. Often the distribution is not even, or there is interdependence between the bits. Then, a compression scheme can do miracles. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
