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05/19/06 11:28
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#116624 - Information
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Well, it can be perfectly compressed, since it contains no information,

Perfectly compressed (or perfectly encrypted) messages will appear to be streams of random bytes and contain lots of information. Just substituting a generated random sequence will not suffice. :)

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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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