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Clever, he'd likely be skipping many 5's towards the end, but still compresses.

Another scheme: chop it up into files of increasing length, the difference being 1..256, encoding a byte (ignore the last difference).

EDIT more efficient to increase in length by 1 or 2, encoding a bit.




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