Am 29.05.16 um 20:46 schrieb Terry Reedy:
On 5/29/2016 2:12 AM, Rustom Mody wrote: I also note that in English text, a (phoneme) char conveys about 6 bits of information,
6 bits for a letter of English? That is way too much. Claude Shannon estimated something between 1 and 2 bits. You can try for yourself here:
http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~crypto/java/ENTROPY/ Christian -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list