On 2014-10-31, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 2:55 PM, David Haller wrote:
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>> 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 compression though
>>>- your
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] He's old now
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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...@
On 2014-11-02, Matti Nykyri wrote:
>> On Nov 1, 2014, at 23:56, David W Noon wrote:
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>> On Sat, 01 Nov 2014 22:47:15 +0200, Alan Mckinnon
>> (alan.mckin...@gmail.com) wrote about "Re: [ge
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Grant Edwards
wrote:
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> 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.
>
Of course. I wasn't expectin
On 01/11/2014 19:15, James wrote:
> 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 aut
James [14-11-01 18:16]:
> 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 Nov 1, 2014, at 19:26, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>> On 01/11/2014 19:15, James wrote:
>> 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 Mein
On 01/11/2014 19:59, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> James [14-11-01 18:16]:
>> 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
> On Nov 1, 2014, at 23:56, David W Noon 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&quo
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 wr
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 won
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: on
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
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 fro
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