python implementation of a new integer encoding algorithm.

[Grant Edwards]

On 2015-02-18, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
> janhein.vanderburg at gmail.com:
>
>> Op woensdag 18 februari 2015 17:47:49 UTC+1 schreef Dave Angel:
>>> On 02/18/2015 03:59 AM, janhein.vanderburg at gmail.com wrote:
>>> > encoding individual integers optimally without any assumptions
>>> > about their values.
>>> 
>>> Contradiction in terms.
>>
>> Not.
>
> Out of curiosity, could you give me an example of an integer, not
> assuming anything about its value.
>
> I mean, any integer you could mention would be very close to zero
> compared with virtually all other integers.

Thus demonstrating the fitness of my previously posted "lossy integer
encoding" algorithm.

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