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ricardo81 on July 29, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Monkey Island PC-speaker music player

The pertinent question perhaps: How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Hopefully the grand kids appreciate the theory/use of Huffman!

ttsiodras on July 29, 2021 | [–]

:-)

Well, if the bird in question used an LZ77 followed by Huffman, he could compress all that wood/chuck stuff down to almost nothing. So he could chuck a lot :-D

preinheimer on July 29, 2021 | | [–]

Even if a wood chuck could chuck wood, would a wood chuck chuck wood?

mnw21cam on July 29, 2021 | [–]

Isn't that in Monkey Island 2?

ricardo81 on July 29, 2021 | [–]

It is

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