[Gllug] Re: [linuxjobs] Cypher: help requested

Chris Bell chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Tue Jun 1 16:30:00 UTC 2004


On Tue 01 Jun, Jim Bailey wrote:
> 
> On Jun 01, 11:31, Andrew Halliwell wrote:
> > So, an infinity:1 compression ratio for ITV then... (as compressing an
> > entire night's viewing would result in a zero length file)
> 
> I don't think so, IANAM but some very odd things happen when
> mathematicians start messing about with infinity.  Maybe a mathematician
> could shed some light on it.
> 
> Peace Jim

   In this case you could try using calculus to determine the rate of change
of compressed file size as the input file time/length approaches the day
time/length.

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Chris Bell

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