GLH compression
Over lunch today, I was talking to Gwyn and Laurie, two of the Ruby coders from New Bamboo – I work with them on a Top Secret Web Project for work.
We started talking about geeky things, and somehow ended up discussing a compression algorithm, where you would alphabetise each character of a message, and then replacing the number of instances of a character with a number, thereby drastically compressing how much space it takes up. (more…)