Eric Cordian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >Someone else needs to read the comp.compression FAQ. > >http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=498720 > >----- > >NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Florida research start-up working with a team of >renowned mathematicians said on Monday it had achieved a breakthrough that >overcomes the previously known limits of compression used to store and >transmit data. >... >ZeoSync said its scientific team had succeeded on a small scale in >compressing random information sequences in such a way as to allow the >same data to be compressed more than 100 times over -- with no data loss. >That would be at least an order of magnitude beyond current known >algorithms for compacting data. >... >-- >Eric Michael Cordian 0+ > There may be a way to derive & patch together pseudorandom sequence generators, who knows. If there is anything real about this I wonder how long it takes to compress large blocks of arbitrary input data? Geological time scales anyone?
Mike
