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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: Gregory Edigarov <greg () bestnet kharkov ua>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 10:46:54 +0300
On Wed, 18 May 2011 13:07:32 -0700 Landon Stewart <lstewart () superb net> wrote:
Lets say you had a file that was 1,000,000,000 characters consisting of 8,000,000,000bits. What if instead of transferring that file through the interwebs you transmitted a mathematical equation to tell a computer on the other end how to *construct* that file. First you'd feed the file into a cruncher of some type to reduce the pattern of 8,000,000,000 bits into an equation somehow. Sure this would take time, I realize that. The equation would then be transmitted to the other computer where it would use its mad-math-skillz to *figure out the answer* which would theoretically be the same pattern of bits. Thus the same file would emerge on the other end. The real question here is how long would it take for a regular computer to do this kind of math? Just a weird idea I had. If it's a good idea then please consider this intellectual property. LOL
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