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In article <4542@columbia.UUCP> metzger@garfield.columbia.edu.UUCP (Perry Metzger) writes:
>Look folks, as we all know from being cryptographers (you do actually
>know a bit about the subject, don't you?) that the redundancy of
>english is NEVER estimated by anyone in his right mind at more than
>75%, so thus it is impossible to compress it beyond that in general.

Unless you take symbolic representation into account.  Say you
numbered the (2^14)-1 words, and used that to replace just the
absolute matches (forgetting about endings etc), you would already be
elimintating more than you claim, before even implementing redundancy
techniques.  If you read a little more on the subject, you would
realize there is more than one way to skin a cat.

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Paul Guthrie
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