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From: herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: Integer not expressable in less than 13 words
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Date: 26 Apr 91 20:19:15 GMT
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In article <kgio16w163w@shark.cs.fau.edu>, tomh.bbs@shark.cs.fau.edu (Tom Holroyd) writes:
> Hmm.  Compressing English phrases into shorter ones.  Keep it up
> and pretty soon we'll all be speaking zipspeak, or maybe arctalk.
> Might improve the signal to noise ratio a bit.. :-) :-)
> 
Nah, net noise will zip no better than signal.  It'll just free
bandwidth for more of it.

dan herrick
herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com