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  1. Newsgroups: comp.compression
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!fuug!kiae!ihep.su!sendmail
  3. From: igor@hump.ihep.su (Igor Mandrichenko)
  4. Subject: Re: My New Compression Algorithm
  5. Message-ID: <9207140859.AA08413@hump.ihep.su>
  6. Apparently-To: inews@ihep.su
  7. Posted-Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1992 12:59:12 +0400
  8. Sender: sendmail@ihep.su (sendmail daemon)
  9. Organization: IHEP,Protvino
  10. X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
  11. References: <BrAx6q.IM3@acsu.buffalo.edu>
  12. Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1992 12:59:12 +0400
  13. Lines: 10
  14.  
  15. Phil Howard writes:
  16. >This won't work.
  17. >How can you distinguish between these files:
  18. >    10111010001
  19. >and
  20. >    00010111010001
  21. >:-)
  22.  
  23.     Why not to discard all leading non-signifacant zeros since the
  24. compression/decompression algorithm does not use them ? :)
  25.