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- From: jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879)
- Subject: Re: Fixed point of the lzw compression alg.
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- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.143732.22918@news.uiowa.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:37:32 GMT
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- From article <1438@chorus.chorus.fr>, by jloup@chorus.fr (Jean-loup Gailly):
- >
- > No. The shortest possible fixed point for LZW is the empty string.
-
- OOPS, sorry, you're right. I should have said 'the shortest possible
- non-empty fixed point' or perhaps 'the shortest possible interesting
- fixed point.'
-
- > Since you correctly ignored the three byte magic cookie added by
- > 'compress', the output of the LZW algorithm is also an empty string.
-
- Of course, it might be fun to find a fixed point for Compress that included
- the magic cookie.
- Doug Jones
- jones@cs.uiowa.edu
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