The author's 10MB example is far from optimized. From the article: > As 42.zip shows us it can compress a 4.5 peta byte (4.500.000 giga bytes) file down to 42

The author's 10MB example is far from optimized. From the article: > As 42.zip shows us it can compress a 4.5 peta byte (4.500.000 giga bytes) file down to 42 kilo bytes.