8 Jan
2002
8 Jan
'02
6:04 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:27:47PM -0700, Michael Motyka wrote:
So what is compression/decompression? Isn't it just finding corresponding sets using defined procedures, one set being "smaller" than the other? Which types of procedures are allowed and which are not?
What exactly is random data? Does it have to appear to be random? Does it have to pass some set of statistical tests to be random? If a string
I'm naturally skeptical of this claim (until I can verify it for myself), but I do not believe the claim is "we can encode random data at 100:1." They seem to be talking about 100:1 lossless compression of real-world data, which is generally not random. -DEclan