
Originally Posted by
schnaader
Let me address my concerns with your method:
1. In your example, you're reducing numbers from the "input" range 3000-4000 to numbers in the "output" range 1-20. Doing this for more than 20 numbers in the input range would produce duplicate outputs, so decoding won't work anymore.
2. Since you're reducing the numbers in multiple steps (e.g. 6 steps for 3055 => 1042 => 1006 => 18 => 14 => 2), you have additional information ("6 steps") to encode to get back from 2 to 3055. If you don't encode this additional information, the decoder doesn't know if he should stop at 14, 18, 1006, 1042 or 3055. Another way would be to encode the range 3000-4000 and stop with the first number in that range, but again, this is additional information that has to be encoded. So it looks like a 12 bit to 2 bit reduction, but the additional information will increase the 2 bit result.
3. If "have different angles & generate different master number" means that you can encode the same number in different ways, this is additional information that the decoder has to know, too.
So that's why I don't think that this statement holds: