Rewinding the byte trail of the White Whale

by Boris Alexeev and Dustin G. Mixon

Abstract

Motivated by a popular code golf challenge, we review some key ideas from information theory and discuss how to efficiently compress a streaming file with an acceptable error rate.

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Boris Alexeev and Dustin G. Mixon
Rewinding the byte trail of the White Whale
Math Horizons, 33(1), 18–21. (Sep 2025)

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