On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:38:33AM +0530, abhishek jain wrote:
> Hi Friends,I have a task to discover or search for a compression algorithm
> which compresses even 300 - 400 characters to about at least 200-300%
> compression reducing them to 150 characters.
Easy. You want a Redundant Array of I
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:20:14PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote:
> Also, what do you mean by "characters"? Do you mean "bytes" or some other
> encoding? What you're trying to do seems quite muddled and smells doomed to
> failure to me.
I have this feeling the it's not mandated that homework is done
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 05:39:23PM +0530, abhishek jain wrote:
[...]
> Any solution one can think of in regards to the compression,
Not really, because we don't know what the source data is beyond it being
300-400 characters. Theory states it's impossible to compress all strings
into smaller strin
>
> You can lossily compress to 150 characters in a SMS of course:
> it's called txtspeak.
Do you mean by txtspeak is writing eg. 'brb' for be right back?
No i cannot do so,
>
> The problem, as stated, is intractible. Rather than struggle along trying
> to
> solve it, one should step back and
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:43:34AM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> abhishek jain wrote:
>> Hi Friends,I have a task to discover or search for a compression
>> algorithm which compresses even 300 - 400 characters to about at least
>> 200-300% compression reducing them to 150 characters.
[...]
> One
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 6:08 AM, abhishek jain
wrote:
> Hi Friends,I have a task to discover or search for a compression algorithm
> which compresses even 300 - 400 characters to about at least 200-300%
> compression reducing them to 150 characters.
If you have e.g. XML compression ratios of 8:1 (
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:38:33AM +0530, abhishek jain wrote:
> Hi Friends,I have a task to discover or search for a compression algorithm
> which compresses even 300 - 400 characters to about at least 200-300%
> compression reducing them to 150 characters.
This is not possible in the general cas
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, abhishek jain wrote:
Hi Friends,I have a task to discover or search for a compression algorithm
which compresses even 300 - 400 characters to about at least 200-300%
compression reducing them to 150 characters.
Is this a possibility, i know it should be,
I need to research mo
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 07:08, abhishek jain wrote:
> Hi Friends,I have a task to discover or search for a compression algorithm
> which compresses even 300 - 400 characters to about at least 200-300%
> compression reducing them to 150 characters.
What kind of text are we talking about?
If it's r