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#Renegade Software

    18-Oct-93 22:13:08
Sb: #118581-#Renegade Software
Fm: Syndesis 76004,1763
To: John Draper 76703,4322
In a programmer's magazine, they were talking about compression methods. In one puzzle, an alien looks at an encyclopedia, decides he wants to compress it, then measures a distance very precisely on a stick, makes a notch, and presto, he's compressed the encyclopedia. What did he do?