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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: theoretical compression factor
Message-ID: <15690@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 3 Apr 91 15:32:36 GMT
References: <18263:Mar2518:10:4091@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <15626@smoke.brl.mil> <1991Apr3.001158.12011@cs.dal.ca>
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In article <1991Apr3.001158.12011@cs.dal.ca> chris@ug.cs.dal.ca (Chris Robertson) writes:
>Wouldn't it depend on the characteristics of the data to be compressed?

The domain was assumed to be that of all N-bit messages.