From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E4CA1389FE for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:56:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A329DE0930; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:56:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qg0-f43.google.com (mail-qg0-f43.google.com [209.85.192.43]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6647DE08E6 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:56:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qg0-f43.google.com with SMTP id f51so6122498qge.30 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:56:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=4HzuwdLT0YEjig9XJT/y4071UPq0XYXho8ErXIQ7TQ0=; b=nlaOI+S+D2grzC8pOtS8NGlTDEzArIq3EHKFcxrFIU9ofZHzCP+kJIq/HlP+uc9pCd NtbDsYBz8YC2Oqq1Ttsc4UlG4WDAX62jU57Q1q6/mswm2SDCJENju+w5XwRDDZvwSkhs O00456FFZ/GIkOL5OnXEAvBJQ7dnNXhpetmHVJFtheQK/QXVcQeP0hMcIwurO5YM0bls FjIkeG12d0AJZZiw87tIgitbtc55WezmgFB46WirIBGcpa88Kwa+a+z3b2ZlHS2z0fDQ +wHQl96haJ6majawoBBVY5PFV8oUV5FoMdyJiJ4bfbtjliei0feyEf+86G2idSlyVcDw IIXQ== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.140.104.234 with SMTP id a97mr9309438qgf.24.1414778195597; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:56:35 -0700 (PDT) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.140.102.134 with HTTP; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:56:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20141031155917.GB13217@solfire> References: <20141031153659.GA13217@solfire> <5453AE7D.8060505@ramses-pyramidenbau.de> <20141031155917.GB13217@solfire> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 13:56:35 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 32b1m0ZdemvhEp5JrsEj3FTW_es Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best way to compress files with digits From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 643f8e4b-079b-4a26-b67e-0db09f5445b5 X-Archives-Hash: e2d07577cf1f8d2c67b78fe6484ce633 On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 11:59 AM, 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