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05/19/06 11:12
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#116622 - By definition!
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Christoph Franck said:
A stream of completely random bytes cannot be compressed meaningfully.

One might add: "By Definition"

All lossless compression schemes rely on the input data using more than one bit of data per actual "bit" of information;

Lossy compression schemes (eg, JPEG, MPEG) rely on the assumption that you can throw away some real information without anyone really noticing...



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TopicAuthorDate
Ram Compression            01/01/70 00:00      
   Elaborate please ?            01/01/70 00:00      
      Ram compression            01/01/70 00:00      
         What kind of data are we looking at ?            01/01/70 00:00      
         Further elaboration            01/01/70 00:00      
            ram compression            01/01/70 00:00      
               Extra bytes            01/01/70 00:00      
               In that case ...            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Yes it can            01/01/70 00:00      
                     Information            01/01/70 00:00      
                     Err...            01/01/70 00:00      
                        Hang on a minute            01/01/70 00:00      
                           Information vs. Meaning            01/01/70 00:00      
                           How about helping rather than ridiculing            01/01/70 00:00      
                              NOT ridiculing            01/01/70 00:00      
                                 syntax error            01/01/70 00:00      
                                 a loony replies,its all in the entropy.            01/01/70 00:00      
                     sparse data            01/01/70 00:00      
                        Run-length encoding?            01/01/70 00:00      
                           proper run length coding            01/01/70 00:00      
                              But how do you know...            01/01/70 00:00      
                                 slight mistake            01/01/70 00:00      
                  By definition!            01/01/70 00:00      
   go outside the box            01/01/70 00:00      
   Or more RAM            01/01/70 00:00      
   if 256 byte not sufficient            01/01/70 00:00      

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