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Originally Posted by wesleyer
You realize you would still have to keep all those files, right ?
It does not matter whether you just compress the dictionary for the second pass, in order to retrieve the original file the first compressed file would still be required.
As Tiersten pointed out, if your method worked you could compress anything to one bit. So, I'll give you one bit: 1.
Now tell me: which book this one bit decompresses to ? Is it the Bible ? Is it the newest Stieg Larsson novel ? Is it a treatise on Information Theory ?
Don't you realize you can't get all that information from a single bit ?
Take a look at this: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression...section-8.html |
i thought and i thought and i thunk and i thunked and think i solved it!
I THINK I HAVE SOLVED IT!
Eureka!
you take the dictionary (1 megabyte ) of the file you have just compressed (eg 10 megabytes) and you then lay it out in a table or graphic format , etc.
And then you take a snapshot of it in jpg format.
thus you have a jpg file which represents the 1 megabyte dictionary which in turn represents the original file.
The jpg file will only be a 100 kilobytes or so for a decent picture of the dictionary tables.
What do you think?