[140746] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Had an idea - looking for a math buff to tell me if it's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Wed May 18 17:06:08 2011
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 13:44:08 -0700
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimJ==S62Z=RbL+nciPwk-m5RVUWPQ@mail.gmail.com>
From: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
To: Landon Stewart <lstewart@superb.net>, nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Landon Stewart [mailto:lstewart@superb.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 1:08 PM
> To: nanog
> Subject: Had an idea - looking for a math buff to tell me if it's
> possiblewith today's technology.
>=20
> Lets say you had a file that was 1,000,000,000 characters consisting
of
> 8,000,000,000bits. What if instead of transferring that file through
> the
> interwebs you transmitted a mathematical equation to tell a computer
on
> the
> other end how to *construct* that file.
Congratulations. You have just invented compression.
=20
