What does it even mean for a piece of music to be so long that no person could possibly listen to it? And supposedly you can download the entire piece and it’s only a few hundred kilobytes in size? Shouldn’t it take more atoms than exist in the universe to store a piece of music so large? Or is compression that effective?
EDIT: eg https://bullofheavendc.bandcamp.com/album/310-px0-2-18-5-18-p-k-k-k
Yep, compression can do wonders. Let’s say A piece of data is
1010110010110101repeating10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10times in a row. (No I didn’t screw up my notation there, that is just a massive number)You cannot fit that piece of data on a hard drive uncompressed, yet I just communicated it to you in a compressed format and you can view the data accurately at any position.
Edit: That number in an easier to read format:
This could also be written as ¹⁰10
(Yeah, I watched that youtube video about tetration.)