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Jan SlootJan Sloot (died 1999) was a Dutch inventor, who claimed to have developed a revolutionary data compression technique, the "Sloot Digital Coding System", which could compress a complete movie down to 8 kilobytes of data—obviously, this is orders of magnitude greater compression than the best currently available technology. This system supposedly didn't use the binary system, but an "alternative digital alphabet" he designed himself. Despite the seeming impossibility of such a technique there were investors that saw potential. However, Sloot died of a heart attack one day before he was supposed to place a patent on his technique. Such grandiose claims of "too good to be true" compression are not uncommon, but somehow they never manage to produce a functioning product. External links Sloot, Jan Sloot, Jan
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