Re: Puzzle Solution

[Tom Droege <droege@fnal.gov>]

Herb,

I hope to get to 10,000 to one.  This is what Lockheed claims is possible,
and I hope to get there.  This does not leave much room for compression.
Only a few percent will be possible, I think.

Tom 

At 12:49 PM 10/21/98 -0400, you wrote:
>On Tue, 20 Oct 1998 12:04:26 -0500, Tom Droege <droege@fnal.gov> wrote:
>*>I would like to congratulate Andrew Bennett for correctly solving the
>*>puzzle.  Below is his complete solution:
>*>
>*>>
>*>>It looks a lot like you are getting the wrong high order
>*>>byte - either the one before or the one after.
>*>>
>*>>Andrew Bennett, Avondale Vineyard, Nova Scotia, Canada.
>*>>
>
>Facinating! I was suspecious of a byte order problem: it did not
>occur to me casually it was a "byte sequence" problem. Congratulations!
>
>Tom, as you are looking at all the bits, let us know when you have
>a measure for the reliable dynamic range of the new design. We've
>talked about data compression recently, and a simple compression
>scheme would be to remove the lowest and presumably unreliable bits.
>And of course it affects small difference measurements and so on.
>
>Herb Johnson
>
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