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"compress a datafile such that ..." appears to give a self-contained definition of what it means to compress in the context of the challenge.

In any case, no compression algorithm makes all inputs smaller. So, just because a data encoding doesn't make a particular input case smaller doesn't imply that it's not a compression algorithm.




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