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| | The PAQ Data Compression Programs |
 | | On Apr. 2, 2004, Alexander Ratushnyak submitted an entry of 637,116 bytes using a modified version of PAQ (paqar -6). |
 | | He improved this to 619,922 bytes on Apr. 25, 2004, to 614,738 bytes on May 19, 2004, to 610,920 bytes on June 24, 2004, and to 609,650 bytes on July 12, 2004. |
 | | It also works as a general purpose compressor and is the first PAQ version to take the #1 spot in the Maximum Compression benchmark. |
| www.cs.fit.edu /~mmahoney/compression (5971 words) |
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