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Somewhat related: https://github.com/philipl/pifs https://github.com/philipl/pifs If the expansion of pi is normal then all your data is already in it

• 0-_-0 7y ago
  And you can compress any data as the index at which it occurs in pi!!!1!
  • jacobkg 7y ago
    Can the index be reliably represented in fewer bytes than the data itself?
    • jameshart 7y ago
      this question is equivalent to asking a physicist about a machine, ‘but can it reliably do more work than you put in to it?’ The equivalent of the law of thermodynamics in this case is the pigeonhole principle.
      • ramshorns 7y ago
        In fact, no compression scheme can reliably compress data to fewer bytes than it started as, thanks to the pigeonhole principle.
    • CydeWeys 7y ago
      Nope. On average it takes much more information to represent the index than the data itself. "Compress" is definitely a misnomer here.
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