[[email protected]: Re: radix-sorting rational numbers with an efficient serialization of continued fractions]
Kragen Javier Sitaker <[email protected]>
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----- Forwarded message from Darius Bacon <[email protected]> ----- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:02:34 -0700 From: Darius Bacon <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: radix-sorting rational numbers with an efficient serialization of continued fractions Only skimmed this yet, but I'll note that your E(n) appeared in _Managing Gigabytes_ as the 'gamma code' and is said to perform reasonably for encoding postings lists. Delta code is a bit fancier: the number of bits used for the 'actual number' is encoded with the gamma code. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- To unsubscribe: http://lists.canonical.org/mailman/listinfo/kragen-discuss