the government doesn't want you to know this: compressing files actually makes them BIGGER. see, if i take this zip file and put it inside another zip file, the resulting file is bigger! i will not be taking comments at this time
@Komma i mean, it makes sense to me from the angle of, there's only so much you can compress information, and if you stick something utterly incompressible into a compressor then it's gonna *at least* leave it exactly the same size
@typhlosion The zip program does this on purpose as part of a conspiracy by big zip to sell more zips.
@typhlosion This is actually an interesting demonstration of the Pigeonhole principle! If a lossless compression algorithm can make some inputs smaller then it NECESSARILY must make some inputs bigger