On 2014-11-02, Matti Nykyri matti.nyk...@iki.fi wrote:
On Nov 1, 2014, at 23:56, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote:
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On Sat, 01 Nov 2014 22:47:15 +0200, Alan Mckinnon
(alan.mckin...@gmail.com) wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT Best
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On Sunday 02 Nov 2014 22:03:13 Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Sunday 02 November 2014 21:55:31 Alan McKinnon wrote:
English is a heavily overloaded language and there's always more
than one way to communicate something
Even the simplest cases usually have three words for the same thing: one
On Monday 03 November 2014 19:37:52 Mick wrote:
Even the simplest cases usually have three words for the same thing: one
from French, one from Latin and one from Anglo-Saxon. I won't even mention
words that have come down from Old German and so on, but at least we
don't
have many words
On Tuesday 04 Nov 2014 02:04:45 Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Monday 03 November 2014 19:37:52 Mick wrote:
Even the simplest cases usually have three words for the same thing:
one from French, one from Latin and one from Anglo-Saxon. I won't even
mention words that have come down from Old
On Nov 1, 2014, at 23:56, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote:
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On Sat, 01 Nov 2014 22:47:15 +0200, Alan Mckinnon
(alan.mckin...@gmail.com) wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT Best
way to compress files with digits (in 545546d3.3030
On 01/11/2014 23:56, David W Noon wrote:
The sequence of digits that make up pi are a random sequence - you
can analyze the order any way you want and you'll find no inherent
pattern.
Actually, the sequence of digits is most definitely *not* random. If
the sequence of digits is written any
On Sunday 02 November 2014 21:55:31 Alan McKinnon wrote:
English is a heavily overloaded language and there's always more
than one way to communicate something
Even the simplest cases usually have three words for the same thing: one from
French, one from Latin and one from Anglo-Saxon. I
meino.cramer at gmx.de writes:
I have a lot of files with digits of PI. The digits
are the characters of 0-9. Currently they are ZIPped,
which I think is not the best way to do that.
Hello Meino,
It's a bit of effort, but the world's recognized authority
on algorithms is Don Knuth. [1]
On 01/11/2014 19:15, James wrote:
meino.cramer at gmx.de writes:
I have a lot of files with digits of PI. The digits
are the characters of 0-9. Currently they are ZIPped,
which I think is not the best way to do that.
Hello Meino,
It's a bit of effort, but the world's recognized
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com [14-11-01 18:16]:
meino.cramer at gmx.de writes:
I have a lot of files with digits of PI. The digits
are the characters of 0-9. Currently they are ZIPped,
which I think is not the best way to do that.
Hello Meino,
It's a bit of effort, but the
On Nov 1, 2014, at 19:26, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On 01/11/2014 19:15, James wrote:
meino.cramer at gmx.de writes:
I have a lot of files with digits of PI. The digits
are the characters of 0-9. Currently they are ZIPped,
which I think is not the best way to do
On 01/11/2014 19:59, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com [14-11-01 18:16]:
meino.cramer at gmx.de writes:
I have a lot of files with digits of PI. The digits
are the characters of 0-9. Currently they are ZIPped,
which I think is not the best way to do that.
Hello
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On Sat, 01 Nov 2014 22:47:15 +0200, Alan Mckinnon
(alan.mckin...@gmail.com) wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT Best
way to compress files with digits (in 545546d3.3030...@gmail.com):
On 01/11/2014 19:59, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
[snip]
Ah
On 2014-10-31, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 2:55 PM, David Haller gen...@dhaller.de wrote:
On Fri, 31 Oct 2014, Rich Freeman wrote:
I can't imagine that any tool will do much better than something like
lzo, gzip, xz, etc. You'll definitely benefit from
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Grant Edwards
grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote:
You're cheating. The algorithm you tested will compress strings of
arbitrary 8-bit values. The algorithm you proposed will only compress
strings of bytes where each byte can have only one of 10 values.
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