RIP Abraham Lempel gets compressed

[Yoused]

The Lempel-Ziv algorithm is pervasive in modern computing. One of its creators has passed at ae 86.

Abraham Lempel - Honorary Unsubscribe

Lempel was interested in data compression, and his work is still in use on your computer and phone.

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[Roller]

Thanks for posting. I never knew where the L in LZ originated.

But isn't it possible he's been expanded rather than compressed?

 

[Yoused]

Perhaps during his daily decompression ritual he encountered a non-recoverable CRC error?

 

[Roller]

Perhaps during his daily decompression ritual he encountered a non-recoverable CRC error?

Well, if it's cyclic, maybe he'll be reincarnated, even with the error.