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