On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Mark Janssen <dreamingforw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think the idea is that you could take any arbitrary input sequence, > view it as a large number, and then find what exponential equation can > produce that result. The equation becomes the "compression".
Interesting idea, but I don't see how this has anything to do with compressing arbitrary data. We already have a compact notation for representing a large number as 2^24*x+2^16*y+2^8*z+q, so I don't see how this will be any better, other than eliding NULs. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
