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cellulartoday at 3:40 AM2 repliesview on HN

Maybe everyone should compress the 1st 100MB worth of digits of pi, for an apples-to-apples comparison?

Edit: oh wait that's too easy. Need to generate /publish random digits so everyone can use it.


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saulpwtoday at 3:47 AM

random digits aren't compressible though?

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branc116today at 5:26 AM

Compressor: Output an empty file.

Decompressor: Take any old algorithm for finding digets of pi, find first 100M of them, print them.

Compression ratio of 0! :0