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Lossy text compression

https://hackaday.io/project/5689-lossy-text-compression

by enkiv2 • 9 years ago

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Jaruzel• 9 years ago

I like this. Would love to see the whole bible done, and online. (I'm not religious btw, just curious).

enkiv2• 9 years ago

http://www.lord-enki.net/king_james_ltc.txt

edf13• 9 years ago

Interesting project - it could be taken further and apply some form of txt speak dictionary (E.g. Great->gr8 etc)

thecabinet• 9 years ago

Since reading doesn’t actually involve a letter-by-letter examination of the material, I wonder how a lossy compression algorithm that used words with the right shape would do compared to lossless compression?

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