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		DoggettCK on Nov 23, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Compress 7G to 1K with epic vaporware I think what made me think of it in the first place was the representation of the largest known primes (http://primes.utm.edu/largest.html#biggest) The current largest prime is (2^57885161)-1, which is 17,425,170 digits, yet can be represented with much less, obviously. Maybe adding exponents would help. aX^n + b, perhaps?

kazagistar on Nov 23, 2013 [–]

(this is the point where I hope hope HOPE everyone in this thread is joking)

DoggettCK on Nov 23, 2013 | [–]

Well, I did represent that record prime number, which would take 7,235,646 bytes to write to disk, in 14 bytes, so it's either joking or sorcery.

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