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The word "idea" appears list of 850 common words:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Basic_English_word_l...
"fish" is ranked #1453 in the list of lemmas linked from here:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists#To...
We can arithmetically encode the choice of two words from dictionaries of 1000 and 1500, respectively, using 21 bits.
The two bits estimate is a somewhat pessimistic lower bound.
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The word "idea" appears list of 850 common words:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Basic_English_word_l...
"fish" is ranked #1453 in the list of lemmas linked from here:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists#To...
We can arithmetically encode the choice of two words from dictionaries of 1000 and 1500, respectively, using 21 bits.
The two bits estimate is a somewhat pessimistic lower bound.