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Expected codeword length
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Created
2026-09-24
Updated
2026-09-24
For
a
source
symbol
X
and
a
code
c
, the
expected codeword length
is
L
(
c
)
=
E
[
∣
c
(
X
)
∣
]
=
∑
x
P
(
X
=
x
)
∣
c
(
x
)
∣.
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