Introduction to Computer Data Representation

Universal (Variable Length) Codes

Author(s): Peter Fenwick

Pp: 159-190 (32)

DOI: 10.2174/9781608058822114010012

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Abstract

Text compression requires numbers to represented as compactly as possible, especially the more-frequent values. This chapter describes various compact representations, and especially the "Universal Codes" to represent arbitrarily large values. Many of these codes are seldom mentioned in general literature.


Keywords: Shannon-Fano codes, Hu man codes, Elias` α, β, γ and ω codes, Rice codes, Golomb codes, start-step-stop codes, ternary comma codes, Fibonacci codes, Goldbach and Ibsen codes, Wheeler 1/2 code.

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