[futurebasic] Re: [FB] Compressionism

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From: ted <ted@...>
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 22:29:43 -0500
From the nimble fingers of Robert Covington (artlythere@...)
(7/1/2001 1:09 AM) came...

> Do any of you math wizards or word-bytists know of a simple compression
> scheme for abbreviating or otherwise representing in less data the values 0
> to 255?
> 
> Thank you for any suggestions.
> 
> Robert
> 
(Re)invent the analogue computer and you should be able to store a couple
hundred of those 0..255 things in a single location.

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Ted Spencer; ted@...
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