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- From: ren@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Liming Ren)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Fixed point of the lzw compression alg.
- Date: 14 Dec 1992 17:15:37 -0500
- Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
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- I like the lzw alg. a lot. I have a question after I studied the alg:
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- Is there a fixed point for lzw? By fixed point, I mean the file is unchanged
- after we apply the compression alg. If there is one , what is the size of
- the shortest one?
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- Just a random thought. I hope it makes sense!
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- Liming Ren
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