prefix coding
Noun
A coding system that uses (typically variable-length) codes that are distinguished by their "prefix property", which requires that there is no code word in the system that is a prefix (initial segment) of any other code word in the system.
- Narrower terms
- Elias delta codingElias gamma codingElias omega codingFibonacci codingGolomb Rice codeHuffman codingLevenshtein codingShannon–Fano codingStraddling checkerboardunary coding
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A prefix coding can use a code with code words {9, 55}, as it has the prefix property. However, a code consisting of {9, 5, 59, 55} is not allowed, as "5" is a prefix of "59" and also of "55".
Word forms
prefix codingsprefix code