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to: Ellen K.
from: Alan Cairns
date: 2004-03-01 08:53:10
subject: Re: Word Compression

From: Alan Cairns 

On 29/2/04 6:41 PM, in article vj8540ltumcmarn7ecvuv4j3ph4vo9f1u7{at}4ax.com,
"Ellen K." 
wrote:

>
> I wonder if human eyes work the same... I mean, I am at the age where I
> can't read eensy-teensy print any more... but if it's words I can still
> usually make something out, whereas if it's numbers, forget it.   It's
> like they wiggle when I look at them or something.

There's a lot of processing goes on in the retina even before the pictures
go to the brain. The retina is very good at pattern recognition.

Alan

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