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- From: marcelk@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Marcel van Kervinck)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression,comp.ai.philosophy
- Subject: Re: God's Compression (was: Re: Compressing decimal expansion of pi...)
- Message-ID: <6818@tuegate.tue.nl>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 14:32:49 GMT
- References: <C05MCo.1y2@iat.holonet.net>
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- Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
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- Ken Easlon (ken@iat.holonet.net) wrote:
- :
- : In article <1hvhqhINNkg8@uwm.edu> ,
- : markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
- :
- : >In this way, an algorithm is proven to exist that will compress everything
- : >that has or will ever exist to 256 bits.
- :
- : Granted you can probably name each actual sentence, paragraph, usenet
- : article, etc with it's own 32 byte word, but naming it doesn't explain the
- : meaning. You simply use the name to call up a mental program, which puts
- : the named data into some kind of perspective that makes it useful in
- : carrying out the functions of life.
-
- The meaning of the 256 bit word is contained in the compression function.
- You only need to know that function, but that is always the case when
- uncompressing compressed data. The only sad thing is that the compression
- function is very likely to be very complex, probably consisting of a large
- database. Not very useful, I'm afraid.
-
- Marcel
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- Marcel van Kervinck
- marcelk@stack.urc.tue.nl
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