I know it was meant as a bit of a goof, but i always thought that the "look up the file in pi!" idea was a clever way of doing compression[1], exploiting the fact that pi is normal and thus any given sequence of numbers will happen eventually, meaning that any given file that could possibly exist will show up eventually. Using this, you could theoretically just store two numbers to compress anything, a beginning point and an end point for its position in pi.
I'm aware this would be unbearably slow and the numbers to store really big files might end up taking more memory than LZMA, so I don't need a lecture about it, I just thought it was an interesting idea.
I'm aware this would be unbearably slow and the numbers to store really big files might end up taking more memory than LZMA, so I don't need a lecture about it, I just thought it was an interesting idea.
[1] https://github.com/philipl/pifs