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Arithmetic coding for data compression

Published in Communications of the ACM • Jun 1, 1987
Authors:
Ian H. Witten
,
Radford M. Neal
,
John G. Cleary

Abstract

The state of the art in data compression is arithmetic coding, not the better-known Huffman method. Arithmetic coding gives greater compression, is faster for adaptive models, and clearly separates the model from the channel encoding.

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