Eric Cordian <emc@artifact.psychedelic.net> wrote :
Someone else needs to read the comp.compression FAQ.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=498720
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Florida research start-up working with a team of renowned mathematicians said on Monday it had achieved a breakthrough that overcomes the previously known limits of compression used to store and transmit data. ... ZeoSync said its scientific team had succeeded on a small scale in compressing random information sequences in such a way as to allow the same data to be compressed more than 100 times over -- with no data loss. That would be at least an order of magnitude beyond current known algorithms for compacting data. ... -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+
There may be a way to derive & patch together pseudorandom sequence generators, who knows. If there is anything real about this I wonder how long it takes to compress large blocks of arbitrary input data? Geological time scales anyone? Mike