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   Kristjan Robam to All   
   A idea of having more data on disks.   
   26 Aug 22 09:22:13   
   
   From: he1983912@mail.ee   
      
   I'm talking about storing at least 1,99 times more data to disks.......   
   8 bits -------- 1 character   
   8bits +1+1+1+1 and so on  ---------- contains maximally 5 characters   
   Next 4 bits contain the fact of next 8 bits to be character or not.   
   8*4+8+8   
   -------------- = 48/16 = 3 n0   
   2*8   
   8+4+4   
   ------------ = 2= n1   
   8   
   Replace 4 with 10 000 and you get 1,999600.....   
   Is this idea already made to reality ? Anybody knows ? Before I found it   
   myself, I did not know anything of it....   
      
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