This is not the first time so called unlimited lossless compression has surfaced.
Some of you may recall an article that appeared in Byte Magazine a few years ago:
April 20, 1992 Byte Week Vol 4. No. 25:
"In an announcement that has generated high interest - and more than a
bit of skepticism - WEB Technologies (Smyrna, GA) says it has
developed a utility that will compress files of greater than 64KB in
size to about 1/16th their original length. Furthermore, WEB says its
DataFiles/16 program can shrink files it has already compressed."
[...]
"A week after our preliminary test, WEB showed us the program successfully
compressing a file without losing any data. But we have not been able
to test this latest beta release ourselves."
[...]
"WEB, in fact, says that virtually any amount of data can be squeezed
to under 1024 bytes by using DataFiles/16 to compress its own output
multiple times."
The product did not work as advertised ( surprise ) and does not seem to have made many inroads into the data transission industry.
More of this can be seen at:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/s ec tion-8.html
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Tesla also held the patents before Marconi applied for them.
This is not the first time so called unlimited lossless compression has surfaced.
s ec tion-8.html
Some of you may recall an article that appeared in Byte Magazine a few years ago:
April 20, 1992 Byte Week Vol 4. No. 25:
"In an announcement that has generated high interest - and more than a
bit of skepticism - WEB Technologies (Smyrna, GA) says it has
developed a utility that will compress files of greater than 64KB in
size to about 1/16th their original length. Furthermore, WEB says its
DataFiles/16 program can shrink files it has already compressed."
[...]
"A week after our preliminary test, WEB showed us the program successfully
compressing a file without losing any data. But we have not been able
to test this latest beta release ourselves."
[...]
"WEB, in fact, says that virtually any amount of data can be squeezed
to under 1024 bytes by using DataFiles/16 to compress its own output
multiple times."
The product did not work as advertised ( surprise ) and does not seem to have made many inroads into the data transission industry.
More of this can be seen at:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/
It's a quarter million here in the USA.
In other parts of the world it is a
quarter billion.