100% Compression Using Pi

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Post by gburt » Fri, Nov 08, 2013, 8:20 PM UTC

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Post by bloodorange » Fri, Nov 08, 2013, 8:25 PM UTC

I was wondering what this post could be about when I read the title and was pleasantly surprised when I clicked on it. It gave me a good laugh - we'll done OP.

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Post by steveinator » Fri, Nov 08, 2013, 8:26 PM UTC

Genious

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Post by pjungwir » Fri, Nov 08, 2013, 8:28 PM UTC

    > All possible finite files must exist within π.
    > The first record of this observation dates back to 2001.

I'm surprised to hear this, since I had a buddy in high school in the early 90s who insisted on the same thing. Even then I could see the problem was storing the offset & length of the desired sequence would be worse than storing the sequence itself. This friend was brilliant, but he had a history of crazy half-joking ideas. He insisted the natural numbers don't exist, since you have to cross an infinite range of real numbers to get from 0 to 1.

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Post by angersock » Fri, Nov 08, 2013, 8:30 PM UTC

It's always wonderful to see solid implementations of really terrible ideas.

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Post by greglindahl » Fri, Nov 08, 2013, 8:35 PM UTC

You could go another level meta, and compress the location of the actual data in π by finding the location of the location in π.

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Post by reader5000 » Fri, Nov 08, 2013, 8:37 PM UTC

I'm willing to invest if you have patents.

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Post by huhtenberg » Fri, Nov 08, 2013, 8:37 PM UTC

greglindahl wrote: post #6

You could go another level meta, and compress the location of the actual data in π by finding the location of the location in π.

Keep reading... he suggests just that :)

Re: 100% Compression Using Pi

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Post by Mgccl » Fri, Nov 08, 2013, 8:37 PM UTC

1. There is no proof that pi is a normal number. 2. The index of the position takes up space.

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Post by Dylan16807 » Fri, Nov 08, 2013, 8:39 PM UTC

Mgccl wrote: post #9

1. There is no proof that pi is a normal number. 2. The index of the position takes up space.

1. If everyone uses this algorithm maybe we'll find out if pi is normal or not!

2. Shhh don't let the pie hear you.