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I made 2 changes to the "compress" method:
Why is this better?
The old method divided the bytes into the target number of segments and after even division, placed all remainder bytes into the final segment. This meant that the effect of the remainder bytes on overall entropy was confined to the final byte.
In the new method, the remainder bytes are selected throughout the input bytes and are distributed evenly among the target segments, allowing them to express more entropy. The compression per input byte is more even, since the biggest difference in the number of input bytes per output byte is 1.
For example:
See also pull request on original repo: zacharyvoase#1