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Arithmetic coding for data compression

Communications of the ACM (1987) 30(6) 520-540
DOI: 10.1145/214762.214771
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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. © 1987, ACM. All rights reserved.

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Witten, I. H., Neal, R. M., & Cleary, J. G. (1987). Arithmetic coding for data compression. Communications of the ACM, 30(6), 520–540. https://doi.org/10.1145/214762.214771

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