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Originally Posted by vugtitan
by this method you could achieve nearly unlimited compression for not just text but video too.just imagine a dvd video file downloading in seconds.
could you people give me a critical analysis of any mistakes in the above above idea?
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No. It doesn't work like that. You need to read up more on information theory and compression algorithms. Following your logic, you could keep compressing a compressed file until it becomes 1 bit. Now try and decompress that.
The description of compression algorithms in Wikipedia is also significantly simplified. Only very naive or simple algorithms will do what you said.
I'm not going into the math of information theory or compression algorithms but you get to a point where the file doesn't have any redundancy at all or very little. At this point, the overheads from compression are greater than the gains.