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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 (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 48 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Doesn’t even name the algorithm, and somehow spells LZMA wrong, despite just having written it out longhand.

Well, it’s PC Gamer.

[edit] I still can’t figure out if they’re referencing LZW encoding… the L and Z being the same Lempel and Ziv from LZMA, but with Welch having a different solution for the rest of the algorithm due to size constraints.

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 month ago

Probably mostly AI written.

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