begin quoting James G. Sack (jim) as of Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 02:29:09PM -0700: > Tracy R Reed wrote: > > James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > >> - consider removing the 0's -- since they count for nothing > > > > 0's are fat and don't fit so well down the Internet's tubes also. 1's > > are much slimmer so you can get away with needing less bandwidth. > > > > Yeah, that's another good point. I hadn't even considered _width_. > > Hmmm, of course some wiseacre is always gonna try sending his ones out > sidewise, thereby raising the cost of the tubes not to mention > increasing the frequency response requirements of every node along the way. > > As a potential further refinement, it may be worth adopting the old > telegraph (and subsequent serial transmission) protocol of making "mark" > the default line state.
We can define an isomorphic mapping between 1s or marks to .s, which take up less space no matter what the orientation. -- Second best choice would be ', third ,, fourth `, and then it gets messy. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
