I believe Jan is talking about bits in the information-theoretic sense. I.e, asking "how much do I know?", not "how much space does this take up?"
Quoting robert engels (2018-11-29 17:10:51) > Would you elaborate? I've read the discussion multiple times, and can't > see what other bits you think he is referring to. > > On Nov 29, 2018, at 3:07 PM, Jan Mercl <[1]0xj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 10:02 PM robert engels > <[2]reng...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > I'm pretty sure that is not correct, see > [3]https://www.maximumcompression.com > > > > Most lossless text compression is > 85 %, and if you use lossy > compression (images, audio) it can be 100:1 > Dan was talking about quite different bits. > -- > > -j > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [4]golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit [5]https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [6]golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit [7]https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > Verweise > > 1. mailto:0xj...@gmail.com > 2. mailto:reng...@ix.netcom.com > 3. https://www.maximumcompression.com/ > 4. mailto:golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > 5. https://groups.google.com/d/optout > 6. mailto:golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > 7. https://groups.google.com/d/optout -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
