From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best way to compress files with digits
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 13:56:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGfcS_=9=jcA+N9QhiephY_7nz+8zy4pOe-nu0XdjhyeVgFR5A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141031155917.GB13217@solfire>
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 11:59 AM, <meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
> I am currently checking the compression tools I know of for the
> best compression ration. But I will definitly miss those I dont
> know...
> And sometimes one can do magic with option and switches of that
> kind of tools I also dont know of.
I can't imagine that any tool will do much better than something like
lzo, gzip, xz, etc. You'll definitely benefit from compression though
- your text files full of digits are encoding 3.3 bits of information
in an 8-bit ascii character and even if the order of digits in pi can
be treated as purely random just about any compression algorithm is
going to get pretty close to that 3.3 bits per digit figure.
--
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-31 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-31 15:36 [gentoo-user] OT Best way to compress files with digits meino.cramer
2014-10-31 15:45 ` Ralf
2014-10-31 15:59 ` meino.cramer
2014-10-31 16:52 ` Helmut Jarausch
2014-10-31 17:56 ` Rich Freeman [this message]
2014-10-31 18:55 ` David Haller
2014-10-31 19:23 ` Rich Freeman
2014-10-31 20:25 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2014-10-31 22:22 ` Rich Freeman
2014-11-01 17:15 ` James
2014-11-01 17:26 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-11-01 20:18 ` Matti Nykyri
2014-11-01 17:59 ` meino.cramer
2014-11-01 20:47 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-11-01 21:56 ` David W Noon
2014-11-02 12:06 ` Matti Nykyri
2014-11-03 15:48 ` Grant Edwards
2014-11-02 19:55 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-11-02 22:03 ` Peter Humphrey
2014-11-03 19:37 ` Mick
2014-11-04 2:04 ` Peter Humphrey
2014-11-04 6:35 ` Mick
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