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

18 May 2011


      
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-----Original Message-----
From: Landon Stewart [mailto:lstewart@superb.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 1:08 PM
To: nanog
Subject: Had an idea - looking for a math buff to tell me if it's
possiblewith today's technology.
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.
Congratulations.  You have just invented compression.

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

George Bonser