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[Mouse]

>> ulaw/alaw do actually compress data, but they do it per-sample,
>> converting 16-bit samples to 8-bit [...].  (It does absolutely no
>> inter-sample compression.  [...].)
> I want to object but we're so far into the weeds that I can't even
> clearly formulate a proper objection to your statement.

:-)

> I think much of my objection is around what is sampling vs
> compression therein.

Fair enough.  I was using "compression" in an information-theory sense
in which any transformation that takes N bits in and (always) produces
<N bits out is performing compression.  But drawing a distinction
between sampling and compression would be a fair thing to do.

> I've always thought about uLaw and aLaw as being akin to English in
> the U.K. and the U.S.

Yes.  My fuzzy memory says that ulaw is North Americna and law is
European, but that memory is really fuzzy.

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