There are, however, several objectively bad ways. In "Service Model" (a novel that I recommend) a certain collection of fools decides to sort bits by whether it's a 1 or a 0, ending up with a long list of 0's followed by a long list of 1's.
(No magic, though it still feels like it, BWT is most useful when there's repeated substrings.)
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/270578/negotiator-...
I'm putting together a database along the lines of https://www.whosampled.com/ except instead of samples in music it's fiction authors either:
- revisiting one another's ideas
- stumbling across the same idea independently of one other
Now I get to add an edge between Tchaikovsky and Banks. It's somewhat unsurprising. Tchaikovsky does this a lot.
Also, let us not confuse "relative" with "not objective". My father is objectively my father, but he is objectively not your father.