Supercomputer and encryption and compression @ rate of 96%

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 13:49:22 +0200, rumours say that "Fredrik Lundh"
<fredrik at pythonware.com> might have written:

>Will McGugan wrote:
>
>> Please implement this as a Python module. I would like to compress my mp3 collection to single 
>> bits.
>
>here's the magic algorithm (somewhat simplified):

[snip algo [0]]

Well, I take advantage of this "folding" idea for years now.  Do you
remember DoubleSpace?  I was getting to the limits [1] of my 100 MiB
hard disk, so I was considering upgrading my hardware.  A female friend
of mine, knowing a little but not a lot about MS-DOS asked the
eye-opening question: "why don't you reapply double space to the
compressed drive?"

I was enlightened.

Of course, a couple of weeks ago I had a bad sector which destroyed 800
KiB right in the middle of _Echoes_, but I had my whole Pink Floyd
collection on a 5.25 floppy (zip of zip of zip of...)


[0] -- btw, in your code, Fredrik:
"""file = open(keycode + ".out", "wb")""".replace("keycode", "filename")

[1] disk space -- the final frontier
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-- 
TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best.
"Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving." (from RFC1958)
I really should keep that in mind when talking with people, actually...