> Let me try to get you to understand WHY what you say is impossible. Let's > say you do have a function f(x) that can produce a compressed output y for > any given x, such that y is always smaller than x. If that were true, then > I could call f() recursively: > f(f(...f(f(f(f(f(x)))))...)) > and eventually the result get down to a single bit. I hope it is clear > that there's no way to restore a single bit back into different source > texts.
Hey, that's a nice proof! Cheers, Mark Janssen -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list