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But as said before, it looks like words were limited to 10 letters. So you could encode/compress a bit, but not a long message into a single 243-letters word...
by ale42 3y ago
But as said before, it looks like words were limited to 10 letters. So you could encode/compress a bit, but not a long message into a single 243-letters word...
- thaumasiotes 3y ago> But as said before, it looks like words were limited to 10 letters. On average or individually? A cap of 10 letters doesn't really make sense if you're specifically allowing Latin to be charged by the word.
- lmm 3y agoYou get charged some multiple of sum([ceil(length(word) / 10) for word in words]), plus a flat base fee. At least that's how it was the last time I sent a telegram.