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The English text is 97 ASCII encoded bytes. Compressed with zlib: 86 bytes. Compressed with lzma: 98 bytes. The Ithkuil representation is just 30 UTF-8 encod
by moconnor 12y ago
The English text is 97 ASCII encoded bytes.
Compressed with zlib: 86 bytes.
Compressed with lzma: 98 bytes.
The Ithkuil representation is just 30 UTF-8 encoded bytes.
Compressed with zlib: 39 bytes.
Compressed with lzma: 47 bytes.
(Measured using python's zlib/pylmza modules to avoid e.g. file header overhead)
It's hard to achieve this kind of compression without an external dictionary. What Quijada has created with Ithkuil is, in part, a dictionary for the space of human thought and concepts, something I wouldn't have expected to work in the way the article describes it.
- Dylan16807 12y agoActually, using zlib format gets you an unnecessary 2 byte header and 4 byte footer, so the proper sizes are 80 and 33. I'm having trouble figuring out what's going on with lzma because the spec is lying about the header, so I won't attempt to guess the correct number there.