Re: Constraints and Functional Dependencies
From: Sampo Syreeni <decoy_at_iki.fi>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 00:31:49 +0200
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.62.0703010020410.15178_at_kruuna.helsinki.fi>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 00:31:49 +0200
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.62.0703010020410.15178_at_kruuna.helsinki.fi>
> What is probalistic about it? I thought I could convert the same TIFF
> to a JPEG twice and get the same JPEG both times.
As I said, we're not talking about transitive relations, here. I'm not even aware of an a pair of a compressor and a decompressor that are generalized inverses; that means it's difficult to even get reflexivity to hold, here.
-- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:decoy_at_iki.fi, tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2Received on Wed Feb 28 2007 - 23:31:49 CET