Algorithm that makes maximum compression of completly diffused data.

Mark Janssen dreamingforward at gmail.com
Thu Nov 7 21:43:17 EST 2013


>> I am not sure if it is just stupidness or laziness that prevent you from seeing that 4^8=65536.
>
> I can see that 4^8 = 65536. Now how are you going to render 65537? You
> claimed that you could render *any* number efficiently. What you've
> proven is that a small subset of numbers can be rendered efficiently.

I think the idea would be to find the prime factorization for a given
number, which has been proven to be available (and unique) for any and
every number.  Most numbers can compress given this technique.  Prime
numbers, of course, would not be compressed.

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MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington



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