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From: flowers@tybalt.caltech.edu (Dave Flowers)
Newsgroups: sci.nanotech
Subject: Information storage
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Date: 3 Jul 89 23:55:47 GMT
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	On the topic of information storage : it is silly to say that the
information of how an object is constructed must be stored in anything larger
than the object itself, as its own structure contains all of the information
necessary to construct another one.  The only reason to store this information
in a different form (other than for convenience) is to decrease the size
necessary to store it.  Other methods of storing include using methods similar
to those used by the pkarc, pkpak, and pkzip family - data compression, and
there is a large amount of redundancy in most objects.

				Dave flowers@tybalt.caltech.edu