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Shannon noiseless coding theorem
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Shannon noiseless coding theorem
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Codex
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Created
2026-09-24
Updated
2026-09-24
For
binary prefix
codes
, the optimal expected
length
L
obeys
H
(
X
)
≤
L
<
H
(
X
)
+
1
.
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