500000 * (1 - 114156155 / 115352938) = 5187

Once you have that, becoming rich is trivial. Multiplying both sides of the equation by one trillion, 1 trillion = 0. So open a bank account with $0, now you have one trillion. Easy.

A funnier (although grimmer) way: let p be the world's population. Multiplying both sides of the equation by (p-1) you get p-1=0. Thus, p=1. If you assume that you exist (which is a reasonable assumption, following Descartes's reasoning) you now own all the wealth in the world.

Is this even possible? Don’t we need atleast some data to decompress from?

> Create a Linux or Windows compressor comp.exe of size S1 that compresses enwik9 to archive.exe of size S2 such that S:=S1+S2 < L

So obviously your suggestion does not work.

Note well: I am not claiming that there is any reasonable reason to do this. It's just a way to say "well acksually..."

How good of a ”solution” is that in reality? Like what if you were tasked to decompress multiple different files? Would you bake does into the executable aswell?

Personally, I would count this way around as invalid.

Conceptually you could cram it into some dozens of bytes (trivial initial state of the universe + basic physics + iteration). In practice, of course, that's ridiculous.