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Masimatutu@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’d say roughly 1,000 to 100,000, depending on format.

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takeda@szmer.info ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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- Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Smart compression!
  
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Sotuanduso@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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