Re: Data compression

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Sat May 07 2005 - 14:19:39 CDT

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    On 07/05/2005 18:36, Doug Ewell wrote:

    > ...
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    >All text compression schemes must be lossless.
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    I would suppose that a text compression scheme which treated canonically
    equivalent sequences as identical (and made use of that for slightly
    improved compression) would be acceptable, although technically (at
    least at the byte level) not lossless.

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