[A83] Re: Is compression possible?
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[A83] Re: Is compression possible?
Yeah,
The only compression routine for on-calc usage I know of is RLE.
Does anyone know any other good compression algorithms?
//David
Cirrus Programming
http://cirrus.tigalaxy.com
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From: "Thomas Lutz" <tlutz@stevens-tech.edu>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 7:53 PM
Subject: [A83] Re: Is compression possible?
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> I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to implement the Huffman Compression
> Algorithm...The question is: would it be worth it? Compression works
> better for large files because you have to store the resulting Huffman
> tree. Of course it would be very interesting to have a Zip app on the
> calculator...
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> -Tom
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> Subject: [A83] Is compression possible?
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> Can programs be compressed? What I mean is creating a compressed file =
on
> calc for storage, to save space. Can a small compression algorithm be
> written to compress and uncompress files on calc? For example, you can
> create a compressed file from a program and when you need that program
> again, you can uncompress it.
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