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Re:The Simple Beauty of XOR Floating Point Compression by throwiforgtnlzy on Friday April 12, 2024 @12:42AM (#40009448)
IIRC, there was a WAV-era audio format that used PCM delta compression by recording differences rather than absolute values.
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Re:The Simple Beauty of XOR Floating Point Compression by adzm on Friday April 12, 2024 @12:48AM (#40009485)
Differential PCM did this basically versus the predicted value. Delta modulation is the other scheme.
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Re:The Simple Beauty of XOR Floating Point Compression by throwiforgtnlzy on Friday April 12, 2024 @01:04AM (#40009537)
That's probably it. Thanks for easing my perpetual forgetfulness!
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