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Subject: Re: Silly question

Author: Janosch Zwerensky

Date: 02:06:55 07/26/05

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On July 26, 2005 at 03:44:35, William Sorin wrote:

>A friend told me that you can compress a 40 gig hardrive to just one 700mb CD
>using Norton Ghost, I thought this would be completely impossible.

It depends on what is on that disc. I can easily store the contents of a 40
TERAbyte hard drive on a standard floppy disc if those 40 TB are 40 trillion
zero bytes, but it is trivial to prove that it is impossible in general to
compress a hard drive of capacity something + 1 bit to an image of size
something...



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