A common misconception.<p>There is no universal compression algorithm, by the pigeonhole principle.<p>And your compression scheme won&#x27;t work by the simple fact that the offset of where in Pi your data lies will, on average, take the same number of bits to store as the data itself. Ditto, with pi to the power of lots of random numbers, the offset and the power will, on average, take the same number of bits to store as the data itself.