This is the kind of logic puzzle that involves knowledge of data-compression techniques, or at least an ability to make a reasonable speculation as to how data compression works. I can give you enough of a hint to get you started if you know absolutely nothing about data compression, but it's not going to be nearly enough to be much use in actually explaining the answer to the question. One form of data compression:
Take a string of text 6 characters long - say, "camera", for instance. Each two-letter combination can be assigned a certain value (determined before-hand and including all possible character combinations). Suppose "ca" = a, "me" = b and "ra" = c. So "camera" compresses initially as "abc".
Why can't this be done on "abc" to make it a two-letter combination, which could then be made into a one-letter combination?
A little bit of lateral logic would go a long way, here. :-)
2007-09-11
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