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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, because each character of text occupies one byte (the Colophon at the end of the book illustrates this with data collected from the book itself).
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Salomon, D., Motta, G. (2010). Audio Compression. In: Handbook of Data Compression. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-903-9_10
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