• MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Wait, isn’t your first example goes from 13 spaces binary to a 6 spaces of base 12 (base 10 + the two values A or B).

    That would make the “compressed” result be 110111010111011101110011 which is larger than the original message when both are in binary…

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        1 year ago

        Fair enough. The general idea is correct, I just found that example rather jarring… It is generally more difficult to compress an already small amount of data anyway.