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Compress 7G to 1K with epic vaporware

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Re: Compress 7G to 1K with epic vaporware

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Post by gpcz »

DoggettCK wrote: post #16

I had an idea awhile back about treating large files as insanely large hex integers, then dividing that by a huge known prime, and basically storing 3 smaller integers that plug into the equation "ax + b", where x is the known prime, a is what you found when doing the division, and b is the remainder. Plugging those numbers into the equation would give you the huge integer representing the original file. I'm assuming…

Let's try your algorithm with the number 25 (11001 in binary).

One formulation is 2(11)+3. The primes up to 25 are 2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23, so we'll use the index 4 to represent the prime number 11.

To lay this out, we need to represent three numbers: 2, 4, and 3. Without the inevitable markings you'd need to delineate when numbers started and stopped, the bit string would look like 10 100 11.

Using 11 as the prime, your compression would require laying out 1010011 to represent 11001, which means it's actually anti-compression.

Re: Compress 7G to 1K with epic vaporware

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Post by X4 »

patricklorio wrote: post #17
phaed wrote: post #7

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Wouldn't that just be multiplexing on steroids?

Yes and can theoretically increase the bandwith, but light is a wave function and I don't understand the quantum physical part (regarding observer dependent particle/wave formation) to tell, if it could work or not.

How it looks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4R18PYJaIM

Re: Compress 7G to 1K with epic vaporware

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Post by X4 »

thetwiceler wrote: post #19
datphp wrote: post #8

It's always April 1st somewhere! Edit: I've once thought of a system which would allow virtually unlimited compression, the only drawback is that it would take an insane amount of time to execute. Imagine a chess board, a 8x8 grid of alternating black and white tiles. Now you write an algorithm that performs permutations, 2 by 2, 4 by 4, etc, in a predefined order. If you do enough permutations, at some point you're…

I hate to break it to you, especially since I don't exactly understand the scheme you're describing, but "virtually unlimited compression" is impossible [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon's_source_coding_theorem

I hate to break it to you, but if super massive black holes exist, it is maybe possible. (Curious, if this is wrong or can be broken too)

Re: Compress 7G to 1K with epic vaporware

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Post by DoggettCK »

gpcz wrote: post #21
DoggettCK wrote: post #16

I had an idea awhile back about treating large files as insanely large hex integers, then dividing that by a huge known prime, and basically storing 3 smaller integers that plug into the equation "ax + b", where x is the known prime, a is what you found when doing the division, and b is the remainder. Plugging those numbers into the equation would give you the huge integer representing the original file. I'm assuming…

Let's try your algorithm with the number 25 (11001 in binary). One formulation is 2(11)+3. The primes up to 25 are 2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23, so we'll use the index 4 to represent the prime number 11. To lay this out, we need to represent three numbers: 2, 4, and 3. Without the inevitable markings you'd need to delineate when numbers started and stopped, the bit string would look like 10 100 11. Using 11 as the prime, y…

Like I said, probably full of shit, but I think of odd stuff in the shower.

With really, really huge (like the aforementioned 7GB) numbers, you might see something better, sort of how there's a point with most compression methods that the header is bigger than the data being compressed.

Kinda doubting it now, though.

Re: Compress 7G to 1K with epic vaporware

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Post by X4 »

Everlag wrote: post #11
sciurus wrote: post #6

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I'm all for teenage entrepreneurship and research but... this honestly sounds like the fellow who reads a single computer science text books then has all the answers to those silly issues that have been facing humanity for eternity. Perhaps he found a way to encode data in neutrons ala Diaspora?

Neutrons, Diaspora? Do you mean the social network? Don't get that, can you explain?

Re: Compress 7G to 1K with epic vaporware

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Post by alecsmart1 »

cheese1756 wrote: post #14

Given the claims, it sounds incredibly unrealistic. Then again, legitimate news agencies like Reuters published the press release ( http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/21/ca-techweek-la-idU... ), but the details are pretty scant. They claim it's patented. Can someone find the patents?

The link is no longer working. Maybe they removed.
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