| Physical description |
xviii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Prentice Hall advanced reference series. Computer science. |
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Prentice Hall advanced reference series. Computer science.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-310) and index. |
| Summary |
Compression means making things smaller by applying pressure. Text compression is not about physically squashing text, but about finding ways to represent t in fewer bits or bytes. It is necessary that the coded form can be decompressed to reconstitute the original text ( otherwise, compression is trivial!), and it is usually important that the original is recreated exactly, not approximately. |
| Other author |
Cleary, John G.
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Witten, I. H. (Ian H.)
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| Subject |
Text processing (Computer science)
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| ISBN |
0139119914 |
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