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Every PRNG is an excellent compression algorithm for particular kinds of random data. Actually every kind of unbounded size random data is generated by a device
by cat_plus_plus 4y ago
Every PRNG is an excellent compression algorithm for particular kinds of random data. Actually every kind of unbounded size random data is generated by a device that doesn't contain all of the data at the start. These algorithms may not be generic, but a generic algorithm is not useful because you can always can just generate another random data set from scratch.
- johnday 4y agoPseudorandomly generated data is not random data. There is no way to compress actually random information, by definition.