Sean H. Breheny wrote:
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> Out of curiosity, though, I tried your test case.
> Lo and behold, Win XP's built in compression
> utility (a ZIP algorithm) did not recognize the
> sequence! I generated a file that contained
> 65535 16-bit numbers, in sequence from 0 to
> 65534, represented in little endian format in the
> file. It compressed from 127 K to 119K.
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   Sean,
   Thank you  for you spent your time with the
experiment. I suspected about the result, but
never tried. There is infinite set of numerical
series, so it is not an easy task to select one
to certain data. May be heuristic or stochastic
technique could help.
   (Jinx is a stochastic guru with his random
pulling bits out from PICs) :-)

   Mike.

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