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Re^3: Data compression by 50% + : is it possible?by BrowserUk (Patriarch) |
on May 12, 2019 at 01:52 UTC ( [id://1233626]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
It makes a small -- insignificant -- difference to the outcome. A quick check -- because quicker than trying to derive a formula -- shows that of the 729,000 3-value combinations, 11,839 contain consecutive numbers:
And there are 8010 combinations of 2 sets of three that must be excluded because the last digit of the first set of 3 is one less that the first digit of the second set:
Which means that instead of 531,441,000,000 6-value combinations, there are only (729,000 - 7922 )**2 - 8010 = 519,953,474,074, which means it would still take 40-bits to represent any legal 6-value string; so the math doesn't change: ( 1 - 40/48 ) *100 = 16.67% is best possible for *any* dataset. Any algorithm that achieves better on any given dataset; will not achieve the same results for all datasets; nor even a high percentage of them. Ie. To achieve better, you'd need to reduce the size of the domain so that you could compress 36-bits into 48 which would give 25% compression. But that would require throwing away 87% of the possible datasets With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
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