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4.4 due October 12

This section made sense. At first the average word length didn't make sense, but the example helped a lot. (I kept trying to have it be the average length of an encoded word, not the average length of an encoded letter.)

It was really nice to read this section that was mostly words after reading the 344 section that was mostly symbols.

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