Basic Results
In the following discussion, let K(s) be the complexity of the string s.
It is not hard to see that the minimal description of a string cannot be too much larger than the string itself - the program GenerateFixedString above that outputs s is a fixed amount larger than s.
Theorem: There is a constant c such that
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