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For history fans:

LZ77 and LZ78 are the two lossless data compression algorithms published in papers by [two Israelis named] Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv in 1977 and 1978… Besides their academic influence, these algorithms formed the basis of several ubiquitous compression schemes, including GIF and the DEFLATE algorithm used in PNG and ZIP.

Source: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ77_and_LZ78

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warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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pascal@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The last two Israeli that did something useful for the society.

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- speaker_hat@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  This isn’t true, you can count hundreds here: …wikipedia.org/…/List_of_Israeli_inventions_and_d…
  
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  - pascal@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Oh wow! My post was a joke, but I just learnt the usb thumb drive is an Israeli invention, that’s wild.
    
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