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| From | Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.compression |
| Subject | Re: Universal compression |
| Date | Wed, 27 Jun 2018 02:56:36 +0000 (UTC) |
| Organization | Some absurd concept |
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In comp.compression, Scott <nobody@example.org> wrote: > Is anyone making progress on a universal compressor? Last I heard, at > least a couple of folks were on the verge of finally defeating that > pesky Shannon limit. > > I'll remind everyone that I do in fact have a working compressor that > can reduce the length of any bitstream by one bit. The decompressor is > still giving me a bit of trouble, though. I have a system for shrinking any file of non-zero size. Only gotcha is the arbitrary filename length requirement is making finding the right filesystem difficult. Elijah ------ recognizes a joke unlike that other poster
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Universal compression nobody@example.org (Scott) - 2018-06-26 20:14 +0000
Re: Universal compression Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2018-06-26 19:20 -0500
Re: Universal compression Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2018-06-27 02:56 +0000
Re: Universal compression Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2018-06-27 20:07 +0200
Re: Universal compression nobody@example.org (Scott) - 2018-06-27 20:34 +0000
Re: Universal compression Providence <psionic81@gmail.com> - 2018-06-28 11:08 -0700
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