Talk:Move-to-front transform

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I find this statement a bit odd:

"As an example, imagine we wish to compress Hamlet's soliloquy (To be, or not to be...). We can calculate the entropy of this message to be 7033 bits."

Where did 7033 bits come from? I could transmit this using ASCII, in which case it would take 8*len("To be, or not to be...") = 8*22 = 176 bits. Is this referring to the whole soliloquy? --dantheox 06:10, 12 March 2007 (UTC)