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From: madler@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: IP gnitaluclaC rof margorP (Was Re: Program for Calculating PI)
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Date: 12 Apr 91 10:42:00 GMT
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>> So compression would be 50 %.  Not too bad.  Of course this is just for 
>> pi....  but I think I've made my point.

I can compress pi infinitely.  Here is all of the digits of pi (an
infinite number) represented finitely:

"The ratio of the circumference of any circle to its diameter".

Many other finite representations are possible, of course.  Like a program
that generates pi in decimal.

Mark Adler
madler@pooh.caltech.edu