8 Jan
2002
8 Jan
'02
6:51 p.m.
Declan opines:
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."
From the article:
"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." Now of course it's possible they were horribly misquoted. Still, it is worrisome that so many people quoted in the article think such algorithmic gymnastics are mathematically possible. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"