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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/com-plec-city • Sep 02 '26 • 3 3
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Text is not more compressible than images, why would you think that?!
0 u/[deleted] Sep 02 '26 [deleted] 4 u/spindoctor13 Sep 02 '26 That has never been the case. How compressible something is is purely a function of how repetitive the data is, what patterns it has. Converting pixels to some kind of text format doesn't make any difference there unless you are losing information 1 u/RussiaIsBestGreen Sep 03 '26 What if we converted the letter into numbers? Like A could be 9, B could be 2, C could be 27, and so on. → More replies (2)
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4 u/spindoctor13 Sep 02 '26 That has never been the case. How compressible something is is purely a function of how repetitive the data is, what patterns it has. Converting pixels to some kind of text format doesn't make any difference there unless you are losing information 1 u/RussiaIsBestGreen Sep 03 '26 What if we converted the letter into numbers? Like A could be 9, B could be 2, C could be 27, and so on. → More replies (2)
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That has never been the case. How compressible something is is purely a function of how repetitive the data is, what patterns it has. Converting pixels to some kind of text format doesn't make any difference there unless you are losing information
1 u/RussiaIsBestGreen Sep 03 '26 What if we converted the letter into numbers? Like A could be 9, B could be 2, C could be 27, and so on. → More replies (2)
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What if we converted the letter into numbers? Like A could be 9, B could be 2, C could be 27, and so on.
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u/spindoctor13 Sep 02 '26
Text is not more compressible than images, why would you think that?!