Subj : Re: Storing 20 million randomly accessible documents in compressed form
To   : comp.programming
From : osmium
Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 07:23 am

"Gerry Quinn" writes:

> Compression rations of 30 or so have been reported for English text,
> using schemes based on Huffman encoding.

If you have a link handy I would be interested in reading about 30:1 with 
Huffman based coding.  That's very,very.very impressive.  Did you mean to 
suggest that this applied to *generalized* text?

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