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0 pointsOscarCunningham7y ago0 comments

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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aengvs7y ago

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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0 pointsOscarCunningham7y ago0 comments

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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aengvs7y ago

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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