Re: The software I wish I had



Barry said:

Next you will claim software that can
compress any file down to a few bytes doesn't really work either. ;-)

Tut tut. It's trivial to implement software that can compress any file
down to a single byte:

Step 1: ascertain the number of bits, B, in the file.
Step 2: define "byte" as being B bits wide.

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