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Data Compression Explained (2011)


Matt Mahoney Copyright (C) 2010-2012, Dell, Inc. You are permitted to copy and distribute material from this book provided (1) any material you distribute includes this license, (2) the material is not modified, and (3) you do not charge a fee or require any other considerations for copies or for any works that incorporate material from this book.

Then it would be possible to to enumerate all proofs (lists of axioms and applications of the rules of inference) and describe "the string x such that it is the first to be proven to be a million bits long and random" in spite of the fact that we just gave a short description of it. Many other models and optimizations were added by Berto Destasio, Johan de Bock, David A. Scott, Fabio Buffoni, Jason Schmidt, Alexandar Rhatushnyak (PAQAR), Przemyslaw Skibinski (PASQDA, text preprocessing), Rudi Cilibrasi, Pavel Holoborodko, Bill Pettis, Serge Osnach, and Jan Ondrus. I thank Ivo Danihelka, Glenn Davis, Szymon Grabowski, Aki Jäntti, Harri Hirvola, Christopher Mattern, Ilia Muraviev, Michael Newman, Jan Ondrus, Carol Porter, Alexander Rhatushnyak, Friedrich Regen, Steve Richfield, Sami Runsas, David A. Scott, Eugene Shelwien, Ali Imran Khan Shirani, Yan King Yin, and Bulat Ziganshin for helpful comments on this book.

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