Thomas Jollans <t...@tjol.eu>: > On 2017-10-23 11:32, danceswithnumb...@gmail.com wrote: >> According to this website. This is an uncompressable stream. >> >> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incompressible_string >> >> 1234999988884321 > > No, it's not. According to that article, that string is incompressible > by a particular algorithm. I can see no more general claims.
Here's a compression algorithm that manages to compress that string into a 0-bit string: * If the original string is 1234999988884321 (whatever that means), return the empty bit string. * Otherwise, prepend a don't-care bit to the original string and return the result of the concatenation. >> It only takes seven 8 bit bytes to represent this > > You amaze me. > >>>> bin(1234999988884321) > '0b100011000110011100111010111101000101001001101100001' >>>> len(bin(1234999988884321)[2:]) > 51 >>>> 7 * 8 > 56 So danceswithnumbers made a correct statement! Anyway, a fun troll. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list