Re: VMs: Declaration of WAR against EVA

["Petr Kazil" <kazil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On "Optimally segmenting the VMS into syllables/glyphs":

In my last mail I stated that there should be a direct algorithm to segment the VMS into groups of
characters in such a way that the nimber of different groups is minimized and mean group-length is
maximized.

I remembered that there exists such an algorithm. It's called "Huffman Coding". It's 20 years ago so
I forgot the details, but the algorithm selects the optimal code for a data-stream so that all
redundancy is removed. I think that WinZip uses an "Adaptive Huffman Coding" scheme.

One of you last cited a book on information theory. This coding should be described in there. Can
you look it up and see if it's relevant?

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