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Re: Had an idea - looking for a math buff to tell me if it's possible with today's technology.
From: Chrisjfenton <chrisjfenton () btinternet com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 19:35:59 -0500
try itu v.42bis Iridescent iPhone +1 972 757 8894 On May 18, 2011, at 15:07, 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 -- Landon Stewart <LStewart () SUPERB NET> SuperbHosting.Net by Superb Internet Corp. Toll Free (US/Canada): 888-354-6128 x 4199 Direct: 206-438-5879 Web hosting and more "Ahead of the Rest": http://www.superbhosting.net
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