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


From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 16:54:13 -0400

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Warren Kumari <warren () 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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