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Re:A Big Ring on the Sky by pfortuny on Monday May 27, 2024 @03:45PM (#40493953)
No: precisely that is the definition of randomness as “lack of information “ or “incompressibility”.
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Re:A Big Ring on the Sky by unusualmonkey on Monday May 27, 2024 @03:51PM (#40494020)
HH is just as compressible as HT or TH or TT.

You can easily build a compression scheme for any one of these values, but not one that encapsulates all values while using less data than the raw values themselves.

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