> that you could fit the gunzip binary in the reduced space What's funny is that Patrick (the challenger) asked if a bash script consisting solely of a call to

> that you could fit the gunzip binary in the reduced space What's funny is that Patrick (the challenger) asked if a bash script consisting solely of a call to gunzip would suffice as the decompressor. In other words, all he had to do was compress the file by more than the amount of the script. Mike allowed it, knowing that even a tiny "decompressor" that really just called out to the real thing, would still be larger than the compression achievable on a well-crafted random blob.