Re: The software I wish I had

Richard Heathfield wrote:
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.

The compression is dead easy. Decompression is another matter.

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