At 1:52 PM -0500 3/28/06, Kem Tekinay wrote:
I feel there should be a way to take a series of numbers and combine them in a way that will let you retrieve the series later while storing a minimal amount of information about the series. In my dream world, you could take a million integers, store some information about the whole series, and come out with a number or numbers that would let you work backwards to retrieve every element of the series later.
There is, for certain kinds of series. Obviously you can't compress a random series of numbers, as Charles has pointed out.
But if you have additional constraints -- for example, you know that the numbers form some regular pattern -- then I agree, it's possible to figure out what that pattern is and so compress the stream.
Best, - Joe -- Joseph J. Strout [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
