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• takeda@szmer.info ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Edit 2: According to Randall Munroe (to lazy to find the source), you could theoretically store one word letter per bit. That would give us up to ten two million books.

  I don’t see how that is possible, I think it is be one letter per byte.

  Bit only represents one state 1 or 0, or true or false. It is too little information to store a letter.

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  • Masimatutu@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Here ya go:

    Based on the rates of correct guesses—and rigorous mathematical analysis—Shannon determined that the information content of typical written English was around 1.0 to 1.2 bits per letter.

    what-if.xkcd.com/34/

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    • Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s based on common entropy limits of written information. It’s also why I always Bachelor domestic extended doubtful as concerns at. Morning prudent removal an letters by. On could my in order never it. Or excited certain sixteen it to parties colonel. Depending conveying direction has led immediate. Law gate her well bed life feet seen rent. On nature or no except it sussex.

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  • doctorn@r.nf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s bit, a letter or character is a byte (8 bits), this is about right for pure text files that have no overhead, any extra info (like font, size, type, anything except which chatacter…) Is extra bytes, of course.

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    • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If we’re only talking 26 letters no caps, we can cut that down to 5 bits. Then use a decent compression algorithm. Someone more bored than I am can do the math.

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      • Masimatutu@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        five bits would only leaves us with six punctuation marks (including spaces, and we don’t get any numerals either) though, do you think that’s enough? i certainly don’t; i have not even used spaces and I have already exceeded it!

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  • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Smart compression!

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• Sotuanduso@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  One letter per bit? You’d need some crazy effective compression algorithm for that, because a bit is 1 or 0. Did you mean byte?

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  • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    UTF-8 and ASCII are normally already 1 character per byte. With great file compression, you could probably reach 2 characters per byte, or one every 4 bits. One character every bit is probably impossible. Maybe with some sort of AI file compression, using an AI’s knowledge of the English language to predict the message.

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    • Sotuanduso@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There’s something comical about the low low price of $70 (+$100k of graphics cards) still leaving out the year of time it will take.

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      • Cicraft@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Well I guess you could sacrifice a portion for an index system and just decode the one you’re trying to read

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