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Re:500'000€ Prize for Compressing Human Knowledge by phobotics on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @06:39PM (#37502632)
Does it or does it just require 1% improvement over the last winner? As opposed to a static additional 1% improvement vs the initial best “score”.
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Re:500'000€ Prize for Compressing Human Knowledge by omoikane on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @06:50PM (#37502711)
It's 1% over the last winner. The latest winner has a total size of 114156155, compared to previous winner of 115352938. The payout was

   500000 * (1 - 114156155 / 115352938) = 5187
(see table near "Baseline Enwik9 and Previous Records Enwik8")
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