Ah memories - I 'invented' a fully recursive compression algorithm when I was 14. Oddly enough it didn't work nearly so well in code as it did in my head, and

Ah memories - I 'invented' a fully recursive compression algorithm when I was 14. Oddly enough it didn't work nearly so well in code as it did in my head, and the impossibility of successfully extracting an infinite variety of information from a few bytes didn't cross my mind :-)