Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!amdahl!pyramid!prls!philabs!kestrel!mkr From: mkr@kestrel.Philips.Com (Michael K. Reed) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Stamp out Zeroes! Message-ID: <32837@philabs.Philips.Com> Date: 8 Aug 88 17:02:18 GMT References: <3613@louie.udel.EDU> Sender: news@philabs.Philips.Com Reply-To: mkr@kestrel.UUCP (Michael K. Reed) Organization: Spacely's Space Sprockets, Inc., Briarcliff Manor, NY Lines: 23 In article <3613@louie.udel.EDU> iphwk%MTSUNIX1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Bill Kinnersley) writes: > >If you expect the program you write to have any significant distribution >at all in binary form, be sure that it DOES NOT CONTAIN ANY ZEROES!!! > > >Bill Kinnersley Hmmmmm...No zeros in your binary?? Very interesting. I've also heard about data compaction algs that will compress all data to 1 bit!!!! 8) Michael ________________________________________________________________ | Michael Reed !allegra---- | | mkr@philabs.philips.com \ | | AI Department !steinmetz--->---!philabs!mkr | | Philips Laboratories / | | (914) 945-6069 !rutgers---- | +----------------------------------------------------------------+