The trick, it turns out, is to use an awful lot of clever and complicated math.
  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Doesn’t even name the algorithm, and somehow spells LZMA wrong, despite just having written it out longhand.

    Well, it’s PC Gamer.

    [edit] I still can’t figure out if they’re referencing LZW encoding… the L and Z being the same Lempel and Ziv from LZMA, but with Welch having a different solution for the rest of the algorithm due to size constraints.