Clever, he'd likely be skipping many 5's towards the end, but still compresses. Another scheme: chop it up into files of increasing length, the difference bein

Clever, he'd likely be skipping many 5's towards the end, but still compresses. Another scheme: chop it up into files of increasing length, the difference being 1..256, encoding a byte (ignore the last difference). EDIT more efficient to increase in length by 1 or 2, encoding a bit.