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Binary Encoding

On Wednesday, I prematurely aborted the discussion of coding. I’ve gotten a couple of emails on this now, the one most recent from Richard. To remind you, we had a four-symbol code, consisting of H, A, L, and _. If these symbols were equally distributed, we the number of bits required is 2. We know […]
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