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Originally Posted by HarryT
... which is pretty much the level of compression I'd expect to see from "real" text - 2 to 3x.
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I would have expected data intentionally generated to be random, like the first half of those email addresses, to be much less compressible then an actual book, but indeed, the 3.1MB text file of War and Peace from PG goes down to only a little under 1MB, so there you go.
ApK