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by tromp 2309 days ago
In particular, since the number of binary strings of length n exceeds the number of shorter strings, there must be a string of length n that's not described by a shorter program, i.e. that's incompressible.

More generally, the fraction of strings of length n that can be compressed by k or more bits is less than 2^{-k}.