Algorithm that makes maximum compression of completly diffused data.

[Tim Roberts]

Mark Janssen wrote:
>>> Well let me try to explain why it is working and i have implemented one.
>>> I only need to refresh my memory it was almost 15 years ago.
>>> This is not the solution but this is why it is working.
>>> 65536=256^2=16^4=***4^8***=2^16
>>
>> I think the idea is that you could take any arbitrary input sequence,
>> view it as a large number, and then find what exponential equation can
>> produce that result.  The equation becomes the "compression".

Interesting -- I hadn't noticed that.  Of course, now you have the
problem of expressing 4^8 in a compact way.

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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
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