Related papers: Extended Comment on Language Trees and Zipping
The Comment by Xiong et al. (arXiv:1610.06275) criticizing my Letter [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 133903 (2016)] was rejected by Physical Review Letters. In this Reply, I show that all their claims are wrong.
We regret to point out several inaccurate and misleading statements that Benedetto {\em et al.} make in their Reply to our Comment on their paper titled ``Language Trees and Zipping''.
Motivated by the recent submission to cond-mat archives by J. Goodman (cond-mat/0202383) whose results apparently discredit the approach we have proposed in a recent paper (Phys. Rev. Lett., 88, 048702 (2002), cond-mat/0108530), we report…
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A recent e-print (cond-mat/0604532) presented a proposed Comment to Applied Physics Letters on our publication Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 162503 (2006), cond-mat/0603260. Here is our Response. As the proposed Comment has now been rejected by…
A comment on the paper Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 161116 (2014).
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