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Originally Posted by Max Lobovsky
I'm not sure what you mean by "pseudo", but it's mathematically impossible for a compressor to consistently compress random data. I don't know much information theory at all, but i know that random data is essentially pure information, and there is no way to encode pure information into a smaller amount of information. (This is incidentally why already compressed files (including lossy media compression for images, sound, etc) don't compress well. They have already converted the data to near pure information.)
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Well see
, sometimes the impossible can be done.