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Erik the Outgolfer
Erik the Outgolfer
10:00
@ASCII-only ~400? that seems like a too small number, 05ab1e has 10000
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@EriktheOutgolfer No I mean making the small dictionary 400 words long
of course the rest would be 240k long lol
Erik the Outgolfer
Erik the Outgolfer
what about 65025?
(255^2)
each small word will take 2 bytes
and what about 16581375 for long?
(255^3)
each long word would take 3 bytes
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No
Erik the Outgolfer
Erik the Outgolfer
or better long would be somehow unbounded
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wat.
I calculated, 400 should be close to optimal
for large string compression at least
Erik the Outgolfer
Erik the Outgolfer
10:03
what's going on with 400?
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10:22
@EriktheOutgolfer Zipf's law

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