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Re: What do you call this?

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Industrial One wrote:
) With a PRNG I can generate a stream of bytes of any size from any
) range. If I select 0-127 then it will generate a random distribution
) of hex bytes 00 to 7F, and WinRAR will compress it by 12.5%, as
) expected. If I select the full 0-255 then compression will be 0%,
) obviously. If I select 00-01 the compression ratio will be 8:1.
)
) What do you call the technique of "degrouping" the unique set of
) symbols to a set short enough to represent the combos and not waste
) space?
)
) Is there an app out there that can do this with say English text? How
) many bits to represent 26 letters, 5 right?

Encoding?

Well, actually encoding means more than that but it does include that.


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What do you call this? Industrial One <industrial_one@hotmail.com> - 2012-02-11 09:10 -0800
  Re: What do you call this? Willem <willem@toad.stack.nl> - 2012-02-11 18:07 +0000
    Re: What do you call this? Industrial One <industrial_one@hotmail.com> - 2012-02-11 10:22 -0800
  Re: What do you call this? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-02-11 16:10 -0600
    Re: What do you call this? biject <biject.bwts@gmail.com> - 2012-02-11 19:03 -0800
    Re: What do you call this? Industrial One <industrial_one@hotmail.com> - 2012-02-12 06:13 -0800
      Re: What do you call this? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-02-12 15:02 +0000
      Re: What do you call this? Jim Leonard <mobygamer@gmail.com> - 2012-02-13 08:19 -0800
        Re: What do you call this? Industrial One <industrial_one@hotmail.com> - 2012-02-13 12:04 -0800
          Re: What do you call this? Jim Leonard <mobygamer@gmail.com> - 2012-02-13 12:54 -0800
        Re: What do you call this? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-02-13 20:28 +0000

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