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- From: williams@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Kent Williams)
- Subject: Re: Compression technique mentioned in PCW
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- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.173306.742@news.uiowa.edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 17:33:06 GMT
- References: <1992Aug18.155518@sees.bangor.ac.uk>
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- From article <1992Aug18.155518@sees.bangor.ac.uk>, by mather@sees.bangor.ac.uk (Paul Mather):
- > Well, the method the person outlined was the familiar one of representing
- > the bytes of a data stream as a decimal fraction N, where N is between 0
- > and 1. A similar scheme was mentioned here during the WEB flame wars,
- > where compression was achieved by marking this number on a rod. Decompression
- > involved precisely measuring the marked length and enumerating it. :-)
- >
- This sounds like arithmetic compression. Some people who don't care about
- compression time or memory usage have come up with really effectic arithmetic
- compressors.
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