I've compressed 500 Mb into 970 Kb?

Teeter-Totter @Teeter-Totter

May 2021 7 29 Report

I've compressed 500 Mb into 970 Kb?

Here's my proof https://dl.dropbox.com/u/23080006/compress.txt.zip

Update:

Finally someone gets it. Nice job Pesos. :)

Computers & Internet / Software

Arie

Verified answer

*yawn*

Text can be compressed a lot indeed. Now try it with a movie format for example such as MP4. You will see that you cannot achieve such compression rates, which is what most people will have meant in your last question. Everyone knows about compressing text, so therefore they most likely did not mention this.

Jasper

Many might think the compression thing is impossible, but I have invented a way, that many others might have, to compress a multi-gigabite file to less than a hundred bytes. (1024 bytes = 1KB)

Only problem is, that we would need a lot of processing power to work and atleast with today s technology, it would not be practical. I could even use it to compress infinite amounts of files, into a one, less than a hundred byte file.

If computers would have infinite speed, then this method might be useful, but for today s computers, it s mostly useless.

Btw, it s not the ZIP bomb/repeating, my method can store any data

Anonymous

That's because repetitive text is easy for a compressor to compress at a high rate. Try compressing a text file of the same size with more varied text.