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From: <barsa@barsaconsulting.com> > Curiously enough, *SPADCT (spelling aid dictionary objects) do NOT contain > words! They are funny little objects that seem to contain pointers to > themselves. They are very compact. The *SPADCT US contains 200,000 words, > and it's only 1,339,392 bytes long! I don't know if this is how it is done, but there is a standard trick to keep a sorted dictionary short. Take the following entries from Webster's: insurance insurant insure insured insurer insurgence insurgency insurgent we can encode this as follows: 0insurance 7t 5e 6d 6r 5gence 8y 8t where the numbers tell how much of the PREVIOUS word is the same in this word. +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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