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

Christopher Hunter chrisehunter at blueyonder.co.uk
Tue Jun 1 17:32:15 UTC 2004


On Tuesday 01 Jun 2004 5:41 pm, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 05:39:31PM +0100, Rich Walker wrote:
> > Note that, since ITV contains no information, d(compressed)/dt is
> > proportional to log(t):
> >
> > You watched ITV for 24 hours   - 29
> > You watched ITV for 168 hours  - 30
> > You watched ITV for 8760 hours - 31
> >
> > Hmm. Maybe I've unravelled his compression algorithm.
>
> It ties in with another thing he said about the amount of compression
> being related to the amount of processing power available.  Obviously
> to interpret those strings we're going to need computers with
> Artificial Intelligence => lots of computing power ...
>
> Rich.

Perhaps, but what has ITV got to do with intelligence?

Chris

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