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  2. Kraft–McMillan inequality - Wikipedia

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    Let each source symbol from the alphabet = {,, …,} be encoded into a uniquely decodable code over an alphabet of size with codeword lengths ,, …,. Then = Conversely, for a given set of natural numbers ,, …, satisfying the above inequality, there exists a uniquely decodable code over an alphabet of size with those codeword lengths.

  3. Variable-length code - Wikipedia

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    A code is uniquely decodable if its extension is § non-singular.Whether a given code is uniquely decodable can be decided with the Sardinas–Patterson algorithm.. The mapping = {,,} is uniquely decodable (this can be demonstrated by looking at the follow-set after each target bit string in the map, because each bitstring is terminated as soon as we see a 0 bit which cannot follow any ...

  4. Prefix code - Wikipedia

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    For example, a code with code {9, 55} has the prefix property; a code consisting of {9, 5, 59, 55} does not, because "5" is a prefix of "59" and also of "55". A prefix code is a uniquely decodable code: given a complete and accurate sequence, a receiver can identify each word without requiring a special marker between words. However, there are ...

  5. Shannon's source coding theorem - Wikipedia

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    In information theory, the source coding theorem (Shannon 1948) [2] informally states that (MacKay 2003, pg. 81, [3] Cover 2006, Chapter 5 [4]): N i.i.d. random variables each with entropy H(X) can be compressed into more than N H(X) bits with negligible risk of information loss, as N → ∞; but conversely, if they are compressed into fewer than N H(X) bits it is virtually certain that ...

  6. List decoding - Wikipedia

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    The codes that they are given are called folded Reed-Solomon codes which are nothing but plain Reed-Solomon codes but viewed as a code over a larger alphabet by careful bundling of codeword symbols. Because of their ubiquity and the nice algebraic properties they possess, list-decoding algorithms for Reed–Solomon codes were a main focus of ...

  7. Huffman coding - Wikipedia

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    Huffman tree generated from the exact frequencies of the text "this is an example of a huffman tree". Encoding the sentence with this code requires 135 (or 147) bits, as opposed to 288 (or 180) bits if 36 characters of 8 (or 5) bits were used (This assumes that the code tree structure is known to the decoder and thus does not need to be counted as part of the transmitted information).

  8. Sardinas–Patterson algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Consider the code {,,,,}.This code, which is based on an example by Berstel, [3] is an example of a code which is not uniquely decodable, since the string 011101110011. can be interpreted as the sequence of codewords

  9. Self-synchronizing code - Wikipedia

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    The prefix code {00, 11} is not self-synchronizing; while 0, 1, 01 and 10 are not codes, 00 and 11 are. The prefix code {ab,ba} is not self-synchronizing because abab contains ba. The prefix code b ∗ a (using the Kleene star) is not self-synchronizing (even though any new code word simply starts after a) because code word ba contains code word a.