| From: | Sai Emrys <saizai@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 10, 2005, 9:32 |
> "I read an interesting pumice yesterday."*laugh*> So the information content of whatever word shows up > there is less than 17 bits, and less than 3.4 bits per > character. > > English has so much redundancy, in fact, that > something in the neighborhood of 1.3 bits per > character, on average, it all it takes to encode > typical English text.Thanks for the explanation. - Sai