Comment by selcuka
10 hours ago
Yeah. I had to read the comment a few times to make sure that I'm not missing anything, but you are right. Those are two distinct things.
As a side note, the title is not accurate either because the method in the article can compress only one flag to 11 bits:
> Using this format, the average flag can be represented in 76 bits, with a median of 55 bits.
One can use Huffman encoding (the same encoding the article uses) to compress one of the flags to a single bit.
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