Re: What´s the algorithm that compresses a 20 digit big int, into 8 bytes ?

From: Rafael Anschau <rafael.anschau_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 08:07:04 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <6dcfecd8-6e90-486c-a756-07e7f60f01b4_at_20g2000vbr.googlegroups.com>


On Apr 9, 11:36 am, Rafael Anschau <rafael.ansc..._at_gmail.com> wrote:

> There may of course be other hypothesis, thanks for bringing up this
> very interesting fact.

PS:A third hypothesis is that the resulting binary value is then compressed(being a repetition of 1s and 0s, that could generate a fairly compressed value, but in a value so small the overhead of the information *about* the compression could simply make it infeasible). Received on Fri Apr 09 2010 - 17:07:04 CEST

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