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Article #3550Re: Need information on data compressio
From: pdg
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1987 18:55
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1987 18:55
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In article <161200002@uiucdcsb> kadie@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu writes: >I think the number of English words is an order of magnitute >greater than 2^14-1 (16383), especially if we count all the >forms of words (word,words,wording,worded) and common proper >names (California, Fred, ...). The issue is not the number of words, but the number of often used words. My understanding is (although I have no sources to back up this claim - anyone??) that the average person has a vocabulary of aprox 10,000 words. Actually, this would be easy to derive from all of the news articles (a good cross section of (reasonably :-) educated people). I wasn't planning on going through the dictionary AARDVARK=1 etc. Something more like (THE=1, AN=2, A=3, TO=4, etc). -- Paul Guthrie ihnp4!ihdev!pdg This Brain left intentionally blank.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!styx!ptsfa!ihnp4!ihdev!pdg From: pdg@ihdev.UUCP Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: Need information on data compressio Message-ID: <1345@ihdev.ATT.COM> Date: Thu, 23-Apr-87 13:55:20 EST Article-I.D.: ihdev.1345 Posted: Thu Apr 23 13:55:20 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Apr-87 05:37:19 EST References: <318@vax1.ccs.cornell.edu> <161200002@uiucdcsb> Reply-To: pdg@ihdev.UUCP (Joe Isuzu) Organization: American Nasal Amputation Centre Lines: 18