> -----Original Message----- > From: Landon Stewart [mailto:lstew...@superb.net] > Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 1:08 PM > To: nanog > Subject: Had an idea - looking for a math buff to tell me if it's > possiblewith today's technology. > > Lets say you had a file that was 1,000,000,000 characters consisting of > 8,000,000,000bits. What if instead of transferring that file through > the > interwebs you transmitted a mathematical equation to tell a computer on > the > other end how to *construct* that file.
Congratulations. You have just invented compression.
