On Fri, Aug 20, 2021, 12:06 PM <magnuswootto...@gmail.com> wrote: > just the capitals only needs 5 bits per character >
Some very old computers used 6 or 7 bits per character. But there was not a lot of data compression research before 8 bits became standard. > > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Td13a829978c4c9f3-M6933c2fed6f3bf1b47fff29b Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription