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| From | Willem <willem@turtle.stack.nl> |
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| Subject | Re: Using various kinds of frequencies |
| Date | Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:25:46 +0000 (UTC) |
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Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
) I mean the following: An 8-bit byte has a coding space of 256. One could
) allocate a part of it to code some high frequency words, another part
) to code some high frequency digraphs and the rest to code the
) alphabetical characters. I assume also that these frequencies are
) known (averages of natural language texts). I like to know whether
) that would result in some compression that is not too bad as compared
) to, say, Huffman applied to single characters as usual.
Probably. It's like Lempel-Ziv compression, but with a fixed dictionary.
SaSW, Willem
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Using various kinds of frequencies Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2012-09-22 11:17 +0200
Re: Using various kinds of frequencies Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2012-09-24 11:01 +0200
Re: Using various kinds of frequencies Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2012-09-24 23:13 +0200
Re: Using various kinds of frequencies Willem <willem@turtle.stack.nl> - 2012-09-24 21:25 +0000
Re: Using various kinds of frequencies glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-09-24 22:20 +0000
Re: Using various kinds of frequencies "George Johnson" <matrix29@charter.net> - 2012-09-24 20:57 -0400
Re: Using various kinds of frequencies Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2012-09-25 10:50 +0200
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