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From: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: GREB
Message-ID: <201@demott.COM>
Date: 2 May 90 14:36:13 GMT
References: <90121.170302JXS118@psuvm.psu.edu>
Reply-To: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Organization: DeMott Electronics Co., Van Nuys CA
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In article <90121.170302JXS118@psuvm.psu.edu> JXS118@psuvm.psu.edu (Jeff Siegel, Op from Atherton Hall) writes:
>In article <195@demott.COM>, kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt) says:
>>
>>    GREB compresses a 600K file into 8 bytes?  Why wasn't this cross-posted
>>to rec.humor.funny?
>>
>
>Hmm, lets see. 600K = 096000 hex bytes. If all bytes are indentical its
>possible to store 600K in 4 bytes. 3 bytes to indicate how long the run is
>and 1 byte to store the actual data.
>

    Uh huh.  And if you happen to know what character that is, then 8
bytes will hold a file up to 1.844674407x10^19 bytes.  And they don't
even have to be all the same character, as long as you know the pattern!
(So what's your point?)

kdq
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