/prog/ - Pushing the envelope

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-26 20:55

in text compression...

~2 bit per char should be do-able on normal (non-random) texts... // Right down-to less than one bit(~0.5) per char is assumed possible [wiki said it was, or something to that effect..]

Surely it's not at it's limit yet though..?
Can you prove that something, data esp., can't be compressed any further?

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-26 21:05

http://www.maximumcompression.com/data/text.php

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-27 1:32

hey wait a sec

rar turns a file into 70% size

so if you startt with 100 MB and rar it youg et 70 MB

then rar it again to get 49 MB then again to get 34 MB then a bunch more times to get it to 1 MB

100x compression!!!!!

any SICP hacaker codfe that up? could be goosd

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-27 1:35

>>1
Fuck off, n3n7i.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-27 1:36

>>3
Brilliant. I bet FV feels stupid now for spending so much time working on his infinite compression algorithm that doesn't work either.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-27 2:27

MAXIMUM STRENGTH compression

But will it compress Crysis?

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-27 2:35

>>4 expert reader

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Name: Anonymous 2011-09-27 3:02

^{S^{L^{A^{C^KW}A}R}E}_{S_{U_{P_{R_EM}A}C}Y}

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-27 3:28

>>7
It's either him or a good impersonator. Either way, it's best to ignore n3n7i.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-27 5:17

>>9

Derp

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-27 6:49

>>9
do i know you?

>>4
OCD much?

<<7 [biou] EXPERT Reader.... [/biou] geddit? =D

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-27 7:10

>>11
Fuck off, n3n7i.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-27 7:20

>>12
if you can prove you're a little smarter than me, and have something interesting to talk about, i might shut up and listen...

failing that, you can just suffer.... as if i'm even really even that bad anyway.. =P

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-27 7:33

>>12 we could talk about illiteracy and ocd..?
and call it reconciliation too? =)

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