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 E87CE138825 for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2014 17:15:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 013E0E0BF5; Sat, 1 Nov 2014 17:15:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9FBCEE0BE7 for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2014 17:15:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F1BD34042B for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2014 17:15:34 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.586 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.586 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.610, BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.594, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=ham Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Pogc_4vIOkGy for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2014 17:15:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 148CA3402A2 for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2014 17:15:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XkcGn-0006Cz-Tv for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2014 18:15:22 +0100 Received: from rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com ([71.40.157.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 01 Nov 2014 18:15:21 +0100 Received: from wireless by rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 01 Nov 2014 18:15:21 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: OT Best way to compress files with digits Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 17:15:13 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20141031153659.GA13217@solfire> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 71.40.157.251 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 SeaMonkey/2.26.1) X-Archives-Salt: f9988291-3ad9-40fb-b16c-681b4d96108c X-Archives-Hash: 1a6d3e1a15118d9f8794db1ef8f3a240 gmx.de> writes: > I have a lot of files with digits of PI. The digits > are the characters of 0-9. Currently they are ZIPped, > which I think is not the best way to do that. Hello Meino, It's a bit of effort, but the world's recognized authority on algorithms is Don Knuth. [1] He's old now, but his pioneering attempt at categorizing most algorithms: "The art of computer programming" and his MMIX alogrithm implementations (kinda like assembler) are certainly part of many first-step research efforts on algorithms and their implementations. It's not a cookbook; more of a scholarly (high_brow) reference, just to supplement all the good postings by your peers on gentoo user. Alan may loan you his copy? (ha ha ha)? hth, James [1] http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/