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[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

You can give me any file, and I can create a compression algorithm that reduces it to 1 bit. (*)

spoiler(*) No guarantees about the size of the decompression algorithm or its efficacy on other files