[HN Gopher] Fibonacci Coding
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Fibonacci Coding
Author : cinquemb
Score : 9 points
Date : 2021-07-04 04:24 UTC (4 days ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (en.wikipedia.org)
| lucb1e wrote:
| I found the section above the linked one (Comparison with other
| universal codes) most interesting:
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| > Fibonacci coding has a useful property that sometimes makes it
| attractive in comparison to other universal codes: it is an
| example of a self-synchronizing code, making it easier to recover
| data from a damaged stream.
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