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But with computing becoming cheaper, you only need 2 integers to compress any data. http://penduin.blogspot.hu/2006/10/pi-compression.html http://penduin.blogs

• chriswarbo 12y ago
  Two integers and a load of computation? How wasteful. Just treat your bits as the binary representation of a Natural number and you're done. No computation required for encoding/decoding, and you only need to store one number :)
• jimktrains2 12y ago
  I remember a friend and I working that out in High school (2003-2004) and coming to the conclusion that since it requires more of π to find a longer sequence, the start index takes up a significant amount of space. (IIRC, this was a while ago)
• PepeGomez 12y ago
  It wouldn't work. The pointers would take on average just as many bits as the original file, if not more.
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