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jaybone@lemmy.world 8 months agoIf 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.
Masimatutu@lemm.ee 8 months 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!