Had an idea - looking for a math buff to tell me if it's possible with today's technology.

Christopher Morrow morrowc.lists at gmail.com
Thu May 19 20:54:13 UTC 2011


On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Warren Kumari <warren at kumari.net> wrote:
>> Just wanted to say yes, this is entirely what I meant.  Of course the
>> smaller the file the more pointless it gets but still...  If the file was
>> 1GB instead of just 7 bytes I'm wondering if a regular old workstation could
>> put it back together in any reasonable amount of time with the equation.
>
> While many folk have said "You've just invented compression", I'm going to be a little more specific -- "Wavelet compression".

'quantum entanglement'!!




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