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Re:A bootable CD image with a retro game in a single tweet by OscarCunningham on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @04:58AM (#17660742)
Then the original statement about not being able to use pi as a data compression method is false. It could be the case that 99% of the time you want to encode the string "141592653".
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Re:A bootable CD image with a retro game in a single tweet by aengvs on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @05:09AM (#17660807)
The efficacy of a compression algorithm is dependent on the data it is compressing, so that statement is true for some data.
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