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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 10:59:43 -0800
Subject: Re: Algorithm that makes maximum compression of completly diffused data.
From: Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com>
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>>Well let me try to explain why it is working and i have implemented one.
>>I only need to refresh my memory it was almost 15 years ago.
>>This is not the solution but this is why it is working.
>>65536=256^2=16^4=***4^8***=2^16
>
> All of those values are indeed the same, and yet that is completely
> unrelated to compression.  Did you honestly believe this was actually
> explaining anything?

I think the idea is that you could take any arbitrary input sequence,
view it as a large number, and then find what exponential equation can
produce that result.  The equation becomes the "compression".

MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington