Saturday, February 20, 2010

Status

The software has been complete for a while, about december or so. I haven't touched it in a while. for now it's once again on hold.

Other status, i've been thinking of posting a large file that shows exact combinations of possible bits turned on, say 5 turned on out of 8 bits (56 combinations), although 8 bit has 256 possibilities. I've built a very fast computation program using gmp precision to allow sizes larger than 64 bit (Actually with 64bit, you could do about 67 before it would overrun).

Applications of this is limited data compression; the downside is you need to know how many bits are turned on and the length, removing the advantage of using it. It is especially useful if you had say 20 out of 80 bits turned on (Like Keno). I'll post two different pages of data soon, depending on where i can host them.

Format: Bits on, combinations, size in bits.
0 - 1 (1)
1 - 8 (3)
2 - 28 (5)
3 - 56 (6)
4 - 70 (7)
5 - 56 (6)
6 - 28 (5)
7 - 8 (3)
8 - 1 (1)