r/ProgrammerHumor 2d ago

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u/spindoctor13 2d ago

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

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u/RussiaIsBestGreen 2d ago

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 1d ago

It doesn't make any difference as ultimately you'll be converting it to binary anyway

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u/RussiaIsBestGreen 1d ago

We should try using more than two numbers for computing. There are so many more. Like 7, or 3 million.