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Total length lower bound for a decipherable binary code

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If a decipherable binary code has N codewords of lengths l1​,…,lN​, then
∑i=1N​li​≥Nlog2​N.
(1)
This follows by applying the entropy lower bound with the uniform source distribution.

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  • Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2021 / ii / Paper 1 / 11K / Solution

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