Talk:ZMI Optistore/@comment-157.52.20.108-20181224151132

"Lossless data compression algorithms usually exploit statistical redundancy to represent data without losing any information, so that the process is reversible. Lossless compression is possible because most real-world data exhibits statistical redundancy. For example, an image may have areas of color that do not change over several pixels; instead of coding "red pixel, red pixel, ..." the data may be encoded as "279 red pixels". This is a basic example of run-length encoding; there are many schemes to reduce file size by eliminating redundancy."

-Wikipedia

1. You have 900 tons of large cabin.

2. Sign up for a vault on the space station, place the 900 tons in the vault.

3. They give you 900 contracts that will allow you to trade in the contracts for the item should you ever go to the station.

4. You store the 900 pieces of paper in your cargo container. (That is 1 ton at most, so you have saved quite some space)

5. Go to another station, trade the pieces of paper (which at this point is functionally the same as trading the actual thing)

Summary:

1. You have now achieved ??? percent data compression using the ZMI technique.

2. Derivatives are now a thing. Prepare for the next GOF2 economic meltdown!