cm0002@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoImplementing 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 todaywww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1527arrow-down111
arrow-up1516arrow-down1external-linkImplementing 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 todaywww.pcgamer.comcm0002@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square36fedilink
minus-squareGrabtharsHammer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·3 days agoI’d like to imagine they took the short trivia fact and applied the inverse of the compression algorithm to bloat it into something that satisfied the editor.
I’d like to imagine they took the short trivia fact and applied the inverse of the compression algorithm to bloat it into something that satisfied the editor.