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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 therm
by 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 agoIn fact, no compression scheme can reliably compress data to fewer bytes than it started as, thanks to the pigeonhole principle.