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I'm curious what the compressed text looks like. Anyone have an example?
by mikevin 2y ago
I'm curious what the compressed text looks like. Anyone have an example?
- munch117 2y agoBinary goo, barely distinguishable from random data, if at all. The arithmetic coder will make sure of that. It's the nature of compression: Any discernible pattern could have been exploited for further compression.
- Lerc 2y agoIf it is within cooee of state of the art the compressed text should look like a pile of random bits. If it looks like anything at all other than randomness then you can describe whatever it is that it looks like to get more compression.