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Golf an LZW encoder

Given an alphabet and a string, your job is to create the Lempel–Ziv–Welch compression of the string. Your implementation can either be a function with two parameters and a return value, or a full ...
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1answer
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Compressing a DNA-like string [closed]

my app is multiple choice test, where for each question the response results in a 4 letter string "eg" GTAC or ATGC or CATG, etc. There are always just 24 questions. so the final result is something ...
5
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12answers
606 views

Output code-sized text

Output the same length of Lorem ipsum your code is! Rules: length is bits/8 length has to be positive code can't be identical to output no compression library shortest or super creative program in ...
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2answers
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Storing a DNS name as compactly as possible in memory (preferably in C#) [closed]

What is the most compact way to encode/save DNS names in memory? For example, storing "www.google.com" as a string in .NET will result in the object being encoded as UTF-16, and it will consume twice ...