A binary code assigns a finite binary word to each source symbol . In the ordinary unframed convention these codewords are nonempty. It is uniquely decodable when concatenation gives an injective map from finite symbol strings to bit strings:
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The decoder can recover the entire symbol sequence without being told where codewords end. This is stronger than merely assigning distinct words to individual symbols.

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