Switch `."` to bijective base.

[isaacg1]

[Maltysen]

What do you mean by bijective base?

[isaacg1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijective_numeration

[Maltysen]

Would this be a form of compression?

[isaacg1]

Sorry, I should explain more. ." currently has a bug, where it can't encode anything where the leading character is the lowest character. Bijective numeration would fix this.

[Maltysen]

oh, I see what you mean, the things goes to a 0, which disappears when you store it as a number.

[kckennylau]

Looks like I started this issue. I also provided a compressor and a decompressor.

[andersk]

What happens if the compressed string includes " or a carriage return (#186)? We probably want to exclude those bytes and use base-254.

By the way, last month I came up with a neat alternative to bijective numeration that’s way more golfable.

[DonaldTsang]

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_base

[andersk]

@DonaldTsang I don’t see how negative bases help here; they need a nonzero leading digit the same way positive bases do.