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by recursive 5006 days ago
> you might find that bytes 1000-2000

On average, even if you have the specific file to work with, encoding those numbers, namely 1000 to 2000, will cost at least as much space as the lengths of the sequence you find. So it would be possible to do this, but the sequences would be so short, and offsets so large, that you'd end up losing.