Re: compression algorithm!

2009-04-08 Thread David Cantrell
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

Re: compression algorithm!

2009-04-08 Thread Nicholas Clark
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

Re: compression algorithm!

2009-04-08 Thread Peter Corlett
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

Re: compression algorithm!

2009-04-08 Thread abhishek jain
> > 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

Re: compression algorithm!

2009-04-08 Thread Peter Corlett
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 ch

Re: compression algorithm!

2009-04-08 Thread Paul Makepeace
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 rati

Re: compression algorithm!

2009-04-08 Thread Peter Corlett
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 th

Re: compression algorithm!

2009-04-08 Thread Michael Lush
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

Re: compression algorithm!

2009-04-08 Thread Philip Newton
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?

Re: compression algorithm!

2009-04-07 Thread Richard Foley
CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/search?query=compression&mode=all -- Richard Foley Ciao - shorter than aufwiedersehen http://www.rfi.net/ On Wednesday 08 April 2009 07:08:33 abhishek jain wrote: > Hi Friends,I have a task to discover or search for a compression algorithm > which

compression algorithm!

2009-04-07 Thread abhishek jain
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 more on this, so if you can please point me