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		Folcon on June 10, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A student’s desire to get out of a exam led to a c... I found their Encyclopedia page[0], but I suspect you meant something better than this? Any further recollections to help drill down and find it? - [0]: https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/data-compression

twotwotwo on June 11, 2023 [–]

It looks like it was Barry Simon in "Lab Notes" in PC Magazine of June and July 1993:

https://books.google.com/books?id=gCfzPMoPJWgC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA...

https://books.google.com/books?id=eX8w8B-OhIIC&lpg=PA371&pg=...

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