Re: Unusual idea..
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 01:03, Alan Shutko wrote:
> Micha Feigin <michf@math.tau.ac.il> writes:
>
> > You can never convert it into a single unique number. That can be proved
> > to be impossible.
>
> No, it can't. Counter-proof: let the MP3 represent a single number,
> base 256, where the first byte is the lowest-order digit, second byte
> next lowest order, etc. Every unique MP3 is now a unique (really,
> really big) number.
>
Thats nice, and might be close to the truth, numerically. The problem is
that this is true as long as you seriously limit your domain.
Without limiting the possible signals I can build a signal you can't
produce a unique number for whatever encoding you use.
But you are right, since we are talking about a very limited domain in
this case, since wav and mp3 or both lossy (44khz wav can't properly
reconstruct signals with more then 22khz).
> --
> Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - I am the rocks.
> "Fax licks mole a$$es..."
>
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