Invisible wrote:
> And now for something... completely pointless.
> 
> Take a look at the attachment. The trace marked "original" is just some 
> random data I made up. [It's the output of a random number generator fed 
> through a band-pass FIR filter with a wide pass-band.] This trace 
> basically consists of 256 double-precision numbers.
> 
> I then took this data, compressed it using the Fractal Transform 
> (yielding 32 positive integers and 64 double-precision floats), and then 
> decompressed it again.
> 
> As you can see, the two signals correlate reasonably closely. As you can 
> *also* see, they're not exactly identical by any stretch. Hmm... I think 
> my program is buggy. :-S
> 
As this Fractal Transform is not lossless, what exactly is your problem?
Other than that it is apparently the wrong compression technique for 
this kind of signal of course.

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