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RE: Re[6]: [Digital BW] Scanners?

2004-02-19 by Austin Franklin

Anthony,

> Austin Franklin writes:
>
> > Rearranging information changes the relationship between
> different elements
> > of the information, and that relationship is completely lost.  I'm not
> > saying that's good or bad, but it does cause something to be lost.
>
> Cryptography is rearrangement at its most extreme, and yet
> nothing is lost.

Of course, if the rearranging is deterministic, it can be reconstructed, but
that is NOT the case with the discussion at hand, which is image data.  My
point is still correct in the context it was made.

Austin

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