Re: Random Data Compressed 100:1 (Guffaw)
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
On 8 Jan 2002, at 9:51, Michael Motyka wrote:
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
A meaningless question. As Eric correctly points out, true random input simply cannot be compressed, it doesn't matter how clever you are or how much time and computing power you have access to. Converseley, if you're just intereted in "compressing" the results of your own pseudo-random number generator, it's trivial to do it instantly, just store the seed and the desired file size. George
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