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From: "R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weylandt@gmail.com>" <michael.weylandt@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Algorithm that makes maximum compression of completly diffused data.
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 23:05:21 -0500
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On Nov 7, 2013, at 22:24, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:43 PM, R. Michael Weylandt
> <michael.weylandt@gmail.com> <michael.weylandt@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Chris's point is more subtle: the typical computer will store the number 6=
5536 in a single byte, but it will also store 4 and 8 in one byte.=20
>=20
> Well, 65536 won't fit in a single byte, nor even in two (only just). A
> typical binary representation of 65536 would take 3 bytes, or 4 for a
> common integer type: 0x00 0x01 0x00 0x00 (big-endian).=20

Quite right -- meant C's int type, (machine word) not char. My mistake!

Michael=