That is correct. The number of physical bits used to represent the information is reduced. The number of bits of information remains the same except in the case of lossy compression.
If this were not true, I could propose the following compression protocol: count the number of 1 bits in the uncompressed stream and represent this as a binary number, recursively apply this to the ones- count until you have one one bit. This is your compressed data. I have a truly marvellous decompression scheme to complement this, which this email is too narrow to contain (damn 80 column limit), but here is the compressed version, 0x1. On Thu, 2018-11-29 at 22:07 +0100, Jan Mercl wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 10:02 PM robert engels <reng...@ix.netcom.com > > > wrote: > > > > > I’m pretty sure that is not correct, see > https://www.maximumcompression.com > > > > > > Most lossless text compression is > 85 %, and if you use lossy > compression (images, audio) it can be 100:1 > > Dan was talking about quite different bits. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
