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Check out Arithmetic Coding: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_coding https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_coding

• utopcell 8y ago
  Yep, not fiction at all, pretty much what is used for state-of-the-art compression.
  • im3w1l 8y ago
    The fiction part is being able to notch the bar sufficiently precise to store any significant amount of data.
    • utopcell 8y ago
      :-)
    • ddalex 8y ago
      You can if you start from the middle out.