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Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units

From Niels Fröhling <spamtrap@adsignum.com>
Newsgroups comp.compression
Subject Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units
Date 2012-05-08 00:42 -0600
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> My layman's impression could certainly be wrong. But to me this seems
> to be that LZW normally attempts to find as much correlations between
> words as possible, which to a large part might actually not be
> profitable work in practice.

Can you name a language without correlations? Can you even point at digital data 
which is uncorrelated? (I'd exclude SETI captures here :^), that is likely 
uncorrelated data)

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Words as well as characters as encoding units Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2012-05-05 10:26 +0200
  Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units James Dow Allen <jdallen2000@yahoo.com> - 2012-05-05 02:41 -0700
    Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2012-05-05 15:06 +0200
      Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2012-05-05 17:05 +0200
        Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2012-05-05 19:42 +0200
          Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-05-05 18:33 +0000
            Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2012-05-05 21:22 +0200
              Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2012-05-05 21:31 +0200
                Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2012-05-05 22:19 +0200
              Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-05-05 20:17 +0000
                Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2012-05-05 22:36 +0200
                Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-05-05 21:29 +0000
                Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2012-05-05 23:52 +0200
                Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units Niels Fröhling <spamtrap@adsignum.com> - 2012-05-08 00:42 -0600
                Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-05-08 08:19 +0000
                Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units Niels Fröhling <spamtrap@adsignum.com> - 2012-05-09 15:14 -0600
                Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units James Dow Allen <jdallen2000@yahoo.com> - 2012-05-09 22:17 -0700

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