Nerd wrote:Being a nerd, I was always amazed at the possibilities of the HTTP/PI protocol. Given a way to translate a message to digits, you technically only need to specify an index to transmit any message you want, even if you need to use up-arrow notation for that.
Of course, being a nerd I also know that π is an historical accident, and that the real number that should be taught and used in math equations is tau (τ).
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So as discussed here : http://math.stackexchange.com/questions ... mbinations
it is not known whether Pi contains all possible sentences or not.
And even if it is the case, it does contain all knowledge separated by a semi-colon, but also all non-knowledge.
Meaning, if Pi has every word, for any true sentence in it, there is also the negation of this sentence.
So I don't think that technically, Jesus correctly grants the person's wish.
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Nerd wrote:Being a nerd, I was always amazed at the possibilities of the HTTP/PI protocol. Given a way to translate a message to digits, you technically only need to specify an index to transmit any message you want, even if you need to use up-arrow notation for that.
Of course, being a nerd I also know that π is an historical accident, and that the real number that should be taught and used in math equations is tau (τ).
You are technically inaccurate because even for <b>lossless</b> compression, all words in a text document (HTML, etc) can indeed be compressed to a smaller size, because of ANSI or UNICODE being inefficient codifications, natural languages such as english having a pretty low entropy (2.3bits/character), and the regular structure of HTML documents.Njol wrote:Being a nerd I should inform you that it's not possible to compress all words (e.g. HTML documents) to a smaller size - at least half of them will end up being larger, no matter what compression algorithm is used (including finding the word in pi and storing "only" the offset + length). So you should probably stick to gzip or bzip2 for now
Nerd wrote:You are technically inaccurate because even for <b>lossless</b> compression, all words in a text document (HTML, etc) can indeed be compressed to a smaller size, because of ANSI or UNICODE being inefficient codifications, natural languages such as english having a pretty low entropy (2.3bits/character), and the regular structure of HTML documents.Njol wrote:Being a nerd I should inform you that it's not possible to compress all words (e.g. HTML documents) to a smaller size - at least half of them will end up being larger, no matter what compression algorithm is used (including finding the word in pi and storing "only" the offset + length). So you should probably stick to gzip or bzip2 for now
That aside, HTTP/PI is not a compression mechanism, is a protocol. Note that you don't need to specify the length, because being a valid HTTP packet, it already contains the length field and ending delimiters inside the sequence. This makes the protocol immune to 'heartbleed'-type attacks.
Guest wrote:Nerd wrote:You are technically inaccurate because even for <b>lossless</b> compression, all words in a text document (HTML, etc) can indeed be compressed to a smaller size, because of ANSI or UNICODE being inefficient codifications, natural languages such as english having a pretty low entropy (2.3bits/character), and the regular structure of HTML documents.Njol wrote:Being a nerd I should inform you that it's not possible to compress all words (e.g. HTML documents) to a smaller size - at least half of them will end up being larger, no matter what compression algorithm is used (including finding the word in pi and storing "only" the offset + length). So you should probably stick to gzip or bzip2 for now
That aside, HTTP/PI is not a compression mechanism, is a protocol. Note that you don't need to specify the length, because being a valid HTTP packet, it already contains the length field and ending delimiters inside the sequence. This makes the protocol immune to 'heartbleed'-type attacks.
Well, in order to state that all HTML documents can be compressed, you have to assume that all of them have something in common. For example, that they all contain the string <html>.
If no assumption is made about the document, then some can't be compressed. So it's not technically false.
So, what's that HTTP/PI protocol ?
Nerd wrote:Being a nerd, I was always amazed at the possibilities of the HTTP/PI protocol. Given a way to translate a message to digits, you technically only need to specify an index to transmit any message you want, even if you need to use up-arrow notation for that..
So as discussed here : http://math.stackexchange.com/questions ... mbinations
it is not known whether Pi contains all possible sentences or not.
Meaning, if Pi has every word, for any true sentence in it, there is also the negation of this sentence.
So I don't think that technically, Jesus correctly grants the person's wish.
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