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OscarCunningham on Aug 1, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: A bootable CD image with a retro game in a single ...

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".

aengvs on Aug 1, 2018 [–]

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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