Re: useless random shuffle transform URST

houston wrote:
) but yes I stand corrected
) William yes I do retain a count of how many times its been shuffled
) thing is this is a single global count resulting in a single byte no
) matter how big the data source is originally. okay its a byte if below
) 256 turns. lol
)
) so for a file of say 30meg to be shuffled I only need a single byte to
) hold the count... hope this clears the confusion up a little...
) apologies.

No problem. :-)

As a prediction, the compression gain you will get by shuffling like this
will be 1 byte at most. Yes, even on 30meg files. See Counting Theorem.


SaSW, Willem
--
Disclaimer: I am in no way responsible for any of the statements
made in the above text. For all I know I might be
drugged or something..
No I'm not paranoid. You all think I'm paranoid, don't you !
#EOT
.