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A novel method of binary data description using cellular automata is proposed. As an actual example, several trials are made to describe vocal and musical sound data digitized in a standard data format. The reproduced sounds are evaluated by "actual listening", by calculating "the signal to noise ratio" with respect to the original sound data, and by comparing "the Fourier power spectra" with those of the original sounds. The results show that this method is quite effective and provides a new means of data compression applicable in any field of digital data recording or transferring.

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