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OscarCunningham
7y ago
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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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aengvs
7y 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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