endless compression

[pardsbane at offthehill.org (Josh Pollak)]

On Aug 12, 2004, at 8:57 AM, markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:

> Jules has mentioned that he has a compressor that will compress 
> compressed
> files. I looked at this a while back and it is a really cool idea.
>
> It is theoretically possible.
>
> Use conventional compression at first. Numerically speaking, a
> traditionally compressed file is interresting because it has virtually 
> no
> repeating numbers. It is also unlikely to have any serious non-random
> seeming number sequences.
>
> As such, this file may be able to be described with fewer bites than it
> contains. That, my friends, is the nature of compression.
>

Sorry, your writing sounds a bit too much like Jules's. What is the 
nature of compression? Your writing jumps cleanly from introduction to 
conclusion without saying anything. How can a file with no repeating 
numbers be described with fewer 'bites' (sic)?