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Re: Compressing data using Goldbach's conjecture?

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George Johnson wrote:
) "Waseihou Watashi" <waseihou@gmail.com> wrote in message 
) news:6f3960da-3058-41fc-8770-0db735674034@z31g2000vbt.googlegroups.com...
)> Suppose that Bob wants to send a message of data to Alice through a
)> computer network, the message can be represented as a number. Both Bob
)> and Alice have a list of prime numbers in a table and for each such a
)> number they know an index in the table.
)>
)> According to Goldbach's conjecture, any even number can be represented
)> as a sum of two primes.
)
)     Whew, there are ONLY EVEN NUMBERS in this universe?  I was worried for a 
) moment there.
)
)> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbach%27s_conjecture
)>
)> Then the message m can be encoded in this way:
)>
)> m = p + q + f
)
)     M = (binary digit 0 or 1) + prime number + (escape character) + another 
) prime number
)     I'm assuming that you're using the "most compact method of storing 
) primes" (all primes except 2 & 5, in Base 10 end in 1 or 3 or 7 or 9, 
) therein, storing the end result + a multiple of 10 is the most compact 
) unit).

No, the most compact method of storing primes is to store the ordinal
number in the sequence of primes.  IOW: for the Nth prime, you store
the number N.


SaSW, Willem
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Disclaimer: I am in no way responsible for any of the statements
            made in the above text. For all I know I might be
            drugged or something..
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  Re: Compressing data using Goldbach's conjecture? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-03-18 04:56 -0500
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