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entropy coding
Last modified: Friday, February 23, 2007 

Entropy coding is a type of lossless coding to compress digital data by representing frequently occurring patterns with few bits and rarely occurring patterns with many bits. Huffman coding is a type of entropy coding.

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Entropy Coding (EC)
The process of entropy coding (EC) can be split in two parts: modeling and coding. Modeling assigns probabilities to the symbols, and coding produces a bit sequence from these probabilities.

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Data Compression

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data compression

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Huffman compression

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