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Burrows Wheeler Transform BWT Preparing Data for Efficient Compression
Introduction Data compression is not only about reducing file size it is about transforming data into a form that can be encoded more efficiently. One of the most elegant examples of this idea is the Burrows–Wheeler Transform (BWT). Unlike traditional compression algorithms that directly reduce data size, BWT is a reversible data transformation that…
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Quantum Data Compression Trading with Reality in an Irreversible Future
Introduction: Compression Beyond Classical Intuition In classical computing, data compression is a reversible engineering problem. Information is encoded redundantly, statistical patterns are exploited, and within theoretical limits such as Shannon entropy data can be compressed and later reconstructed with perfect or near-perfect fidelity. Quantum computing breaks this intuition entirely. Quantum data compression is not…