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Yes, if you want to be sure that your solution is correct, you must run the compressor yourself. Then you count the number of collisions it takes to happen upon
by compbio 12y ago
Yes, if you want to be sure that your solution is correct, you must run the compressor yourself. Then you count the number of collisions it takes to happen upon the correct solution and feed this counter to your decompressor. But then you place the burden of solving the halting problem on yourself and then you got more serious problems than compressing random data.
- jakobegger 12y agoBut your counter will need (X-Y) bits of storage, so you'll need to store Y + (X-Y) bits, or a total of X bits, and you have saved nothing.