Algorithm that makes maximum compression of completly diffused data.

[jonas.thornvall at gmail.com]

Den torsdagen den 7:e november 2013 kl. 23:26:45 UTC+1 skrev Chris Angelico:
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Mark Janssen <dreamingforward at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I think the idea is that you could take any arbitrary input sequence,
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> > view it as a large number, and then find what exponential equation can
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> > produce that result.  The equation becomes the "compression".
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> Interesting idea, but I don't see how this has anything to do with
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> compressing arbitrary data. We already have a compact notation for
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> representing a large number as 2^24*x+2^16*y+2^8*z+q, so I don't see
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> how this will be any better, other than eliding NULs.
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> ChrisA

I guess what matter is how fast an algorithm can encode and decode a big number, at least if you want to use it for very big sets of random data, or losless video compression?