Problem 1148. Compression: Encode and Decode

Created by Richard Zapor

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Richard Zapor on 29 Dec 2012

My "Avoid 0 size solutions" portion in the test suite was far too tempting. Nice haha.

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Richard Zapor on 29 Dec 2012

Always fun to see the inventiveness of alternate solutions.

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Jean-Marie Sainthillier on 4 Mar 2014

You use the filename to encode a small part of the data. Very smart !

Jean-Marie Sainthillier on 3 Aug 2014

I like to come back to this WONDERFUL solution from time to time. In my top 10.

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