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 -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
