Implementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that's technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use today

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Implementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that's technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use today

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Computer History aka Tech Time Travelers@lemmy.capebreton.socialEnglish · 11 months ago

The trick, it turns out, is to use an awful lot of clever and complicated math.

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