On 7/10/07, Alan Bourke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:53:41 +0100, "Peter Cushing" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Havn't you read/seen The Da Vinci Code? :-) That's the first time > > I'd heard of Fibonacci since university. > > Fibonacci was also bandied around quite a lot in the whole chaos theory > / fractals thing in the early to mid 90's.
'Fibonacci Delta compression' is used as a crude technique for compressing 8bit audio samples down to (IIRC) 4 bit. You use Fibonacci numbers to store the difference between the current sample and the next one. -- Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
