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Re: compression challenge

by clemburg (Curate)
on Apr 25, 2001 at 12:43 UTC ( [id://75397]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to compression challenge

Yeah, yeah, and your generator is a (pseudo- or even worse: real) random generator. Nope. Read some information theory on why that is not possible without cheating (e.g., tricking the operating system into believing the files have a different size than they have).

It is really a pity that you said "less than". If you had said "less than or equal" I would have requested a file of size zero and sent two zero size files back. Damn ... ;-) ...

Christian Lemburg
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