Editing Lossless compression (section)

=== The Million Random Digit Challenge ===
Mark Nelson, in response to claims of "magic" compression algorithms appearing in comp.compression, has constructed a 415,241 byte binary file of highly entropic content, and issued a public challenge of $100 to anyone to write a program that, together with its input, would be smaller than his provided binary data yet be able to reconstitute it without error.<ref>{{cite web
  | last = Nelson
  | first = Mark
  | title = The Million Random Digit Challenge Revisited
  | work = Mark Nelson
 | date = 2006-06-20
  | url = https://marknelson.us/posts/2006/06/20/million-digit-challenge.html }}</ref>
A similar challenge, with $5,000 as reward, was issued by Mike Goldman.<ref>{{cite web
  | last = Craig
  | first = Patrick
  | title = The $5000 Compression Challenge
  | url = http://www.patrickcraig.co.uk/other/compression.htm
  | access-date = 2009-06-08 }}</ref>