On 2015-02-18, Dave Angel <da...@davea.name> wrote:
> On 02/18/2015 03:59 AM, janhein.vanderb...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>
>> encoding individual integers optimally without any assumptions about
>> their values.
>
> Contradiction in terms.
Ah, that depends on whether the encoding has to be lossless or not.
For example:
def encode_integer(i):
return 0;
Voila! Optimal encoding with no assumptions about intut values.
It is, however, a bit lossy.
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