Re: why compression doesn't perfectly even out entropy

[tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)]

At 9:34 PM 4/16/96, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

>True enough, but the claim was that a random string has no
>representation which is smaller than itself.

If by "the claim" you mean what I said, as I presume from context you do,
then this is a serious misstatement of what I said.

I already have elaborated on this, so I won't again here.




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