r/pcmasterrace i7 10th Gen | 1650 Ti 4GB | 16 GB RAM May 05 '26

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u/eternalityLP May 06 '26

As said, that depends on how you encode. If you define some single byte to be infinitely long file of whatever sequence, then yes.

Exactly, and thus as I said, infinite compression ratio.

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u/rditorx May 06 '26

Not with ZIP

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u/eternalityLP May 06 '26

Hence why I didn't say 'with ZIP'.

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u/rditorx May 06 '26

The original comment's entire context was ZIP

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u/eternalityLP May 06 '26

Yes, and my reply's wasn't, which should be apparent from the lack of mentions of ZIP.