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"Leonard S. Berkowitz" <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 17 May 2001 14:31:33 -0400
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While compressing several files into an LZW archive, I have the following result
for one or two files:

 IHC60003.BRIDGE03.AMISYS;REC=-8960,1,V,ASCII;NOCCTL;DISC=50000,0;EOF=800000
    (-m 14) 01/05/17 14:11:35
    --Compressing
 Wall: 00:03:22.637 (202637 ms)
 CPU:  00:02:35.561 (155561 ms)
 421600000 bytes/800000 recs in,  46939648 bytes/ 91679 recs out, 100% reduction

Now how can there be 100% reduction? My first thought was that there was 99.99%
reduction, and the display suffers from rounding. However, the resulting
46,939,648 bytes represent 11.1% of 421,600,000.
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Leonard S. Berkowitz
Perot Health Care Systems
(Harvard Pilgrim Health Care account)
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