Timeline for Compression functions are only practical because "The bit strings which occur in practice are far from random"?
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| May 11, 2016 at 16:54 | comment | added | Carsten S | @DavidRicherby, that random data does not compress was already accepted in the question. The question was "but isn't multimedia data random?" to which the answer is that it is obviously not. | |
| May 11, 2016 at 16:37 | comment | added | David Richerby | It shouldn't take half a page to explain the salient facts so that your answer explains why speech and music compress but random noise doesn't. | |
| May 10, 2016 at 8:30 | comment | added | Carsten S | @EvilJS, quite possibly true. I do not think that it should take half a page to explain that there is a difference between speech and noise, though. | |
| May 10, 2016 at 1:46 | comment | added | Evil | Thank you for your contribution. Could you elaborate and add some examples? The idea you gave is good, true, but it was already presented in 3 previous answers. | |
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| May 9, 2016 at 21:22 | history | answered | Carsten S | CC BY-SA 3.0 |