Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 16 Oct 2003 20:03:53 +0100 | | From | John Bradford <> | | Subject | Re: Transparent compression in the FS |
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Quote from "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>: > No! Not true. 'lossy' means that you can't recover the original > data. Some music compression and video compression schemes are > lossy. If you can get back the exact input data, it's not lossy.
Sorry, I wasn't clear in my description. What I meant was that you can't have an algorithm that can compress all possible values of N bits in to less than N bits, without expanding some of them. Of course, you can compress N values in to <N values, compressors do that by definition :-)
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