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* Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen <ken@fiona-victor.com> [2004-03-30 20:13]:
> On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 15:00, Manjula Kuntennkar wrote:
> > we are looking for the algorithm of data compression, we need to
> > send data the GPS data to the base station, data to be compressed
> > is 70%.can u provide the algorithm
> 
> The answer to life, the universe, and everything is 42.

That's _one_ answer. But I got a different one.

Let's assume you've got a file which is filled with exactly
1,073,741,824 spaces in a row. Now look at the compression-
effectiveness-"table", got in <20040210182925.GF921@jabberwocky.com>:

,---- [ Compression-Algorithms ]
| ZIP:   1,043,671 (1028:1)
| ZLIB:  1,043,677 (1028:1)
| BZIP2: 833       (1289005:1)
`----

But maybe you don't want to compress a file full of spaces...

Julius
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