Universal data compression
- Universal data compression
Universal data compression is impossible, though some claim to have found a way to do it. Any data compression algorithm necessarily leaves some input data uncompressed. A simple counting argument illustrates this.
Suppose there is an algorithm A which compresses all data sequences of length b (in bits) to shorter length data sequences. Let c be the length of the longest compressed sequence. Since A compresses all data sequences it must be the case that c < b. Now, there are sequences of length b, but only sequences of length c. Since , it must be the case that at least two sequences, say and compress to the same value, say . As a result, when uncompressing it is not possible to determine whether or should be produced. Therefore, there is no way to undo algorithm A, and A is not correct.
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