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Shannon-Fano coding

Shannon-Fano coding in data compression is a variable-length encoding based on the frequency of each character. The most frequent character is assigned 0, the next is assigned 10, the next 110, etc.

Shannon-Fano is a minimal prefix code. Huffman coding is optimal for character encoding (one character-one code word) and simple to program. Arithmetic coding is better still, since it can allocate fractional bits, but more complicated.



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