Questions tagged [compression]
Related to compressing or decompressing arbitrary data. Challenges which relate to compressing a single specific input should instead be tagged [kolmogorov-complexity]
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Implement the RegPack decompressor
The JavaScript compressor RegPack uses a very simple string compression algorithm. Given a piece of code, it will make a list of characters that aren't used in that code and use them to delimit ...
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Random Pixels Image Compression
Challenge: Given an integer \$n\$, guaranteed to be \$\geq2\$ and a power of 2, we are going to draw multiply boards either side-by-side or below one another, where the first has dimensions of \$n\$ ...
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Program compressor
Choose a language and write a program in the language that: Take a valid program of the language as input, Output a string(bytearray, etc.). It needn't be a valid program. Only finite valid inputs ...
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Smallest possible Scratch 3.0 project file (SB3)
The objective is to make the smallest SB3 file that can simply be imported into Scratch 3.0 without a "The project file that was selected failed to load" error. Any means can be used, like ...
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What's my TIO uniqueness?
Try it online! currently has 680 listed languages, all of which are searchable. For most of those languages, when searching for it, you don't have to enter the entire string. For example, entering <...
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Decompress an integer, Jelly style
Jelly has compressed string literals, using the “...» delimiters. The way these work is by interpreting the ... as a base-250 ...
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Breaking Bad - ize any string (compression) [duplicate]
The TV series "Breaking Bad" replaced the letters Br and Ba with a periodic-table like representation, printing [Br35]eaking [Ba56]d. Create a program ...
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