Registered: Jun 2006
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Hello All,

My name is Keren and I am a M.Sc student in IE, and nned to present the chapter about data compression in two weeks.

I read the chapter, and have a few questions about Number representations (Page 560).

I didn't quite understand how the length prefixed method works.
why 1 is 00? as far as i know 1 is one in binary base....

I also had problem understanding the binary-coded base 3. I Can't see how the numbers are coded that way.

I'll be happy to read your comments.

Regards,

Keren

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Registered: Aug 2003
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There is a note that explains the details in Mathematica code terms, here -

http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/page-1070a-text

If that still leaves specific questions, feel free to ask again. I hope this helps.

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Registered: Jun 2006
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I read the notes few times.

Can you give me an example for encoding the number "5" in both methods?

in the Length prefixed method, "5" is encoded as 10010. I thought that it should start with an ordinary base 2 digit sequence?...

in the Binary-coded base 3 method, "5" is encoded as 000011.
according to the notes, I should take base 3 representation (12), then convert each digit to a pair of base 2 digits (0110), and then some special treatment to the begining and the end of the sequence.


I hope it is not too complicated, since it's not related directly to the data compression methods, but it would still be nice addition to my presentation.

Thanks again.

Keren

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