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It's the contest organizer who gets to choose the file contents. Random noise is practically non-compressible. Btw, tar by itself does not compress at all.
by praptak 14y ago
It's the contest organizer who gets to choose the file contents. Random noise is practically non-compressible.
Btw, tar by itself does not compress at all.
- georgemcbay 14y ago"Random noise is practically non-compressible." It has to be actually random though. I was hoping the solution to this would be that Patrick had figured out that Mike used a specific random number generation engine with a specific seed and thus his decompressor was just a reversed engineered version of the original data generator and the file it "decompressed" was 0 bytes long.
- juan_juarez 14y agoIt says the source was random.org - probably the closest thing to 'true' random you're going to find freely available.