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Infinite Compression techniques

Name: FrozenVoid !!mJCwdV5J0Xy2A21 2011-11-09 9:48

I present a system which would be capable of unlimited compression of any data.
Theory:
Every number can be mapped 1:1 to positive unsigned integer(representing the number itself)
Every integer can be represented as range of floating point numbers
i.e. 3 is range from 3.000... to 3.999...
Now if we multiply the original number by 10: 3*10=30
the range is also multiplied, 30.000... to 39.999... all of these numbers divided by 10 give 3 as integer.
Suppose we can alter original number by shifting the range up or down by supplying an extra factor
3+1 or 3-1, with these 3.000...-3.999... ranges become 4.000...-4.999.. and 2.000...-2.999... respectively
The compression is as follows. The original number is multiplied by a huge scale to create number
which is at least twice longer in file length, giving very large floating point range.
Now we multiply this range by adding a 64bit scale modifier(applied to original number) which shifts the range up and down so the space of the range is now 2^64 times bigger than original.
The compression is search for Any number in that huge range which can be represented more compactly
when one of these is found(for some function like e^A) A is recorded along with scale modifier.
Since the range is enormous there are certainly some numbers which can be represented in short form as
function(x)=number_in_range.
The decoding is as follows,function(x) is runs and results number is divided by scale, then a scale modifier is applied
to get the original number, which is converted to file.

Name: Anonymous 2011-11-11 9:00

>>57
No need to worry, it won't happen because it's mathematically unfeasible. Even given 'infinite' time and space for compression, there is data which is just plain uncompressible (takes more space than the program generating it).

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