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FAIL. "10 tosses, all heads" is 20 characters while "HHHHHHHHHH" is 10 characters. You've conducted expansion rather than compression.

• Retra 10y ago
  "10H" is the string you should be comparing it to (or something equivalent.)
  • tracker1 10y ago
    If we're going there, H10 may be more efficient.... h10t5h1... Thinking the heads vs tails expression would be before the iteration as a better use case.
    • Retra 10y ago
      Depends which way you're iterating.
• mort96 10y ago
  That example is about conveying the information verbally to another human, so syllables is interesting, not characters. "h h h h h h h h h h" is 10 syllables, "10 tosses, all heads" is 4 (and could be compressed further to "10 heads").