Comment by rootlocus
8 years ago
Without any headers, metadata or padding and using RLE one byte for 0 and 8 bytes for the number of zeroes: 10^15 will easily fit 9 bytes and can be used to generate a file filled with one petabyte of zeroes.
8 years ago
Without any headers, metadata or padding and using RLE one byte for 0 and 8 bytes for the number of zeroes: 10^15 will easily fit 9 bytes and can be used to generate a file filled with one petabyte of zeroes.
Well, yes, but that's not ZIP encoding.