[140840] 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 (Gregory Edigarov)
Mon May 23 03:47:50 2011
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 10:46:54 +0300
From: Gregory Edigarov <greg@bestnet.kharkov.ua>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimJ==S62Z=RbL+nciPwk-m5RVUWPQ@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, 18 May 2011 13:07:32 -0700
Landon Stewart <lstewart@superb.net> wrote:
> 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. First
> you'd feed the file into a cruncher of some type to reduce the
> pattern of 8,000,000,000 bits into an equation somehow. Sure this
> would take time, I realize that. The equation would then be
> transmitted to the other computer where it would use its
> mad-math-skillz to *figure out the answer* which would theoretically
> be the same pattern of bits. Thus the same file would emerge on the
> other end.
>
> The real question here is how long would it take for a regular
> computer to do this kind of math?
>
> Just a weird idea I had. If it's a good idea then please consider
> this intellectual property. LOL
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