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thangalinyesterday at 8:37 PM1 replyview on HN

https://cs.stackexchange.com/a/53737/1704

> Matches that occur early enough in π to attain significant compression will not be varied. That is, it isn't possible to use π to compress interesting, real-world data because real-word strings are unlikely to arise early.


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Levitatingyesterday at 9:21 PM

> Since the file is 128 bits long, one would expect this place to be around the 2*128th bit.

> Calculate the number of bits to encode that value using log2(938933556), which is ~29.8

Can someone explain these two statements to me?

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