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Arithmetic coding for data compression

I. Witten, Radford M. Neal, J. Cleary

CACM, 1987

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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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