On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Stephen Paul King < [email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Brent and Jason, > > I think that this is an important idea: the relationship between > compression algorithms and numbers. It does not look like a simple > one-to-one and onto map! > > Stephen, For any "loss-less" (full-fidelity) compression algorithm, the mapping is one-to-one. There are other compression algorithms, like jpeg or mp3 which are lossy (they discard some information in the process), and hence they are many-to-one. Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
