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Text does not occupy much space in the computer. An average book, consisting of a million characters, can be stored uncompressed in about 1 Mbyte, since each character of text occupies one byte (the Colophon at the end of the book illustrates this with precise data from the book itself).
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Salomon, D. (2000). Audio Compression. In: Data Compression. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-86092-8_8
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