Here's an analogy that relates to the way the original problem has been framed (nothing to do with data compression):angros47 wrote:Yes, they say that. Perhaps they are right. Perhaps they are wrong, and there is a way to compress random data, but even if such a way exists , people in this forum obviously are unable to get it to work, otherwise they wouldn't have told you that it's impossible.
- given some whole number
- all even numbers are evenly divisible by 2
- all odd numbers are not evenly divisible by 2 (always remainder 1)
Given a random whole number:
- 50% chance the number is even (evenly divisible by 2)
- 50% chance the number is odd (not evenly divisible by 2)
Now, how to evenly divide all whole numbers by 2? There must be a way... we just haven't discovered it yet. Right?
Or can we safely conclude that dividing a all whole numbers evenly by 2 (no remainder, no fraction) is impossible?