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English has an information density of like 1.2 bits per word if i recall correctly
Those books aren’t just uncompressed, they’re bloated and could be compressed a ton completely losslessly
A short book written using arithmetic encoding might take a few extra months to read, but think of all the paper you’d be saving!
assigned summer reading: nursery rhymes.
yay
arithmetic encoded nursery rhymes
oh…
And remember; using a calculator is cheating
Spoken like someone who has no concept of art or prose.
Try compressing a Nabokov novel “losslessly”.