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by GuB-42 2644 days ago
I've seen somewhere that there is about 1 bit of entropy per letter of English text. The best packer (Hutter prize) compresses 100MB of wikipedia down to 15MB, including the packer itself, a ratio of 1:6.5, which isn't that far off.

Considering that, 40k words to 400kbits is not too surprising.