I just came up with a lossless text compression algorithm that will revolutionize communication. It’s a simple pattern substitution algorithm that is easy to implement, doesn’t require decompression, and yet is lossless! Example plaintext and compressed text:
- “Colour” -> “Color” 16.6% compression (for free with no loss of information!)
- “Honour” -> “Honor” 16.6%
- “Harbour” -> “Harbor” 14.3%
and so on…