title: How many times can a file be compressed?
body: <p>I was thinking about compression, and it seems like there would have to be some sort of limit to the compression that could be applied to it, otherwise it'd be a single byte.</p>
  
  <p>So my question is, how many times can I compress a file before:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>It does not get any smaller?</li>
  <li>The file becomes corrupt?</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Are these two points the same or different?</p>
  
  <p>Where does the point of diminishing returns appear?</p>
  
  <p>How can these points be found?</p>
  
  <p>I'm not talking about any specific algorithm or particular file, just in general.</p>