1996-04-18 - Re: why compression doesn’t perfectly even out entropy

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
To: Scott Brickner <sjb@universe.digex.net>
Message Hash: 6b7215ab9b12fd7f5696822c9e716896a654da8371c39c13e08d9dae01b9f8a0
Message ID: <199604180335.XAA05998@jekyll.piermont.com>
Reply To: <199604172256.SAA09641@universe.digex.net>
UTC Datetime: 1996-04-18 06:57:48 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 14:57:48 +0800

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 14:57:48 +0800
To: Scott Brickner <sjb@universe.digex.net>
Subject: Re: why compression doesn't perfectly even out entropy
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Scott Brickner writes:
> "Perry E. Metzger" writes:
> >> In the context of "fair coin flips" the text of Hamlet is NOT compressible

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• 1996-04-16 (Wed, 17 Apr 1996 06:54:48 +0800) - Re: why compression doesn’t perfectly even out entropy - rick hoselton <hoz@univel.telescan.com>
  • 1996-04-17 (Wed, 17 Apr 1996 13:24:14 +0800) - Re: why compression doesn’t perfectly even out entropy - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
    • 1996-04-18 (Thu, 18 Apr 1996 15:42:45 +0800) - Re: why compression doesn’t perfectly even out entropy - Scott Brickner <sjb@universe.digex.net>
      • 1996-04-18 (Thu, 18 Apr 1996 14:57:48 +0800) - Re: why compression doesn’t perfectly even out entropy - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
  • 1996-04-17 (Thu, 18 Apr 1996 06:41:39 +0800) - Re: why compression doesn’t perfectly even out entropy - abostick@netcom.com (Alan Bostick)