Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Fun With Your Zip Program: Sort ThroughTexts, and More

["Matthew W. Ross" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> The scientists performed a further test of their technique by analyzing a
> single text that has been translated into many different languages -- in
> this case the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  The researchers used
> their method to measure the linguistic "distance" between more than 50
> translations of this document. From these distances, they constructed a
> family tree of languages that is virtually identical to the one
> constructed by linguists.

Ok, one problem I see with this is that there's no mention of how they
compensated for the byte difference between uncompressed texts.  I'm
guessing they're refering percentage compression instead of size?

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