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Jan Sloot

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Dutch computer scientst

NetherlandsLived 1945 to 1999 · aged 53
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The Sloot Digital Coding System (SDCS) is an alleged technique for data encoding claimed to have been invented in 1995 by Romke Jan Bernhard Sloot (1944-1999), an electronics engineer in the Netherlands.

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The Sloot Digital Coding System (SDCS) is an alleged technique for data encoding claimed to have been invented in 1995 by Romke Jan Bernhard Sloot (1944-1999), an electronics engineer in the Netherlands. Sloot claimed his system could represent an entire feature film with only one kilobyte of data, a level of compression which is mathematically impossible according to Shannon's source coding theorem.

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Netherlands
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deceased
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Lived 1945 to 1999 · aged 53
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