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- From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
- Subject: Re: Compressing English text to 1.75bits or better (80%)
- In-Reply-To: rem@btr.BTR.COM's message of 13 Sep 92 19:59:18 GMT
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 10:26:21 GMT
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- > rem@btr.BTR.COM (Robert E. Maas rem@btr.com) writes:
- (In comment to someone elses idea of using a static-dictionary
- compressor for english text; a not-new and not-bad idea)
-
- Your proposed algorithm would be useless for normal volumes of data,
- because the header to transmit that corpus of English would be so large
- it'd be bigger than the stuff you wanted to compress. Remember, when
-
- You don't transmit the corpus, you assume it (it's built-into
- the compression software)
-
- This is actually useful for situations where transmission time
- is so much more expensive that the (local) space to store the
- corpus.
-
- May I suggest such silly methods as yours not be posted in the future?
-
- You obviously do not know what you're talking about, or have
- a mind open enough to grasp all implications, so may I suggest
- re-reading the humility and human-communications chapters of
- Life - The Manual.
-
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