Reply To: Extracurricular Challenges

@upsidedown I agree with your assessment of the expected number of characters. ASCII is seven bits, rather than eight, unless there’s some additional parity added. That seems to suggests an inefficient encoding method – just number of zeros, or one, rather than binary encoding – something like that, or something else off the wall. I feel Claude Shannon could help us, if he was here. Unfortunately, I was never bright enough to fully understand his work, but do appreciate his genius …