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curprev 10:5010:50, 4 November 2025 Ctapobep talk contribs 17,063 bytes +545 Explain the effect of zigzag bitwise operations undo

curprev 17:2117:21, 24 October 2025 InternetArchiveBot talk contribs 16,518 bytes +145 Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.9.5 undo

curprev 16:0716:07, 9 July 2025 RankASea talk contribs 16,373 bytes +12 Link suggestions feature: 3 links added. undo Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Newcomer task Suggested: add links

curprev 20:4720:47, 6 November 2024 InternetArchiveBot talk contribs 16,361 bytes +257 Rescuing 2 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.9.5) (Whoop whoop pull up - 21622 undo

curprev 09:5009:50, 19 July 2024 WOSlinker talk contribs m 16,104 bytes −3 remove extra " in style undo

curprev 10:2810:28, 15 May 2024 LucasBrown talk contribs 16,107 bytes +67 Adding local short description: "Encoding method for variable-length integers", overriding Wikidata description "encoding method which can be used to encode variable length integers" undo Tag: Shortdesc helper

curprev 14:4414:44, 28 April 2024 DrDeath863 talk contribs 16,040 bytes −262 It does not provide any significant error detection. There is no redundancy, and no bit patterns are inherently invalid. undo

curprev 08:1108:11, 24 August 2023 Cedar101 talk contribs 16,302 bytes +185 →Examples: {{Table alignment}}, {{mono}} undo

curprev 16:3216:32, 4 May 2023 YouArePhenomenal talk contribs 16,117 bytes +1,240 No edit summary undo

curprev 22:1422:14, 18 April 2023 2a00:23c5:6085:4501:712f:362f:7938:f3f7 talk 14,877 bytes 0 →Examples: switched column order to put binary together undo
curprev 22:1122:11, 18 April 2023 2a00:23c5:6085:4501:712f:362f:7938:f3f7 talk 14,877 bytes −247 →Examples: revised per my comment on the talkpage undo

curprev 14:4214:42, 15 April 2023 GeertVcm talk contribs 15,124 bytes 0 Binary correction. undo Tag: Visual edit
curprev 14:4114:41, 15 April 2023 GeertVcm talk contribs 15,124 bytes −1 Conversion to the next level was wrong for many values, both the hex as well as the binary representation. undo Tags: possible vandalism Visual edit
curprev 09:1909:19, 15 April 2023 2a02:a03f:e13e:e300:d8ab:f98c:13ec:1dff talk 15,125 bytes 0 Same issue here: we're dealing with bits, not bytes. So, must be MSb, not MSB. undo Tag: Visual edit
curprev 09:1709:17, 15 April 2023 2a02:a03f:e13e:e300:d8ab:f98c:13ec:1dff talk 15,125 bytes 0 MSB must be MSb in this context. We're talking about bits here, not bytes. undo Tag: Visual edit

curprev 20:4120:41, 9 March 2023 2601:647:5f81:c420:a4d3:475b:925c:faed talk 15,125 bytes +6 Fix labeling of bits in table, and relabel bits 'A' and 'B' for consistency of labeling of the continuation bit with the preceding section. undo Tag: Visual edit: Switched

curprev 04:0904:09, 24 July 2022 InternetArchiveBot talk contribs 15,119 bytes +149 Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.8.8) (Ost316 - 10432 undo

curprev 00:1600:16, 20 July 2022 SporkBot talk contribs m 14,970 bytes +301 Replace or disable a template per TFD outcome; no change in content undo

curprev 21:0621:06, 1 May 2022 Kavuldra talk contribs 14,669 bytes +8 →Group Varint Encoding: link is dead undo

curprev 23:2823:28, 3 March 2022 Meowsqueak talk contribs 14,661 bytes −13 Undid revision 1075103920 by Meowsqueak (talk) - sorry, was confused by the table, will revert undo Tag: Undo
curprev 23:2723:27, 3 March 2022 Meowsqueak talk contribs 14,674 bytes +13 →Sign bit: it flows better if the exception (i.e. Unreal Packages) are described after the more general structure has already been described. Otherwise the reading doesn't flow properly. Also, the "sixth" bit is bit 5, I think the original intent was to refer to bit 6, which is the seventh bit. Using the named bit avoids ambiguity. undo Tag: Reverted

curprev 17:4417:44, 28 October 2021 Citation bot talk contribs 14,247 bytes +102 Add: date, title. Changed bare reference to CS1/2. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by BrownHairedGirl | Linked from User:BrownHairedGirl/Articles_with_bare_links | #UCB_webform_linked 159/648 undo

curprev 09:2809:28, 29 August 2021 Processus42 talk contribs 14,145 bytes +101 Fixed the dubious statement about Unreal Packages and added a link to an archive of the source undo

curprev 21:3721:37, 27 January 2021 Monkbot talk contribs m 14,044 bytes +2 Task 18 (cosmetic): eval 3 templates: hyphenate params (2×); undo Tag: AWB

curprev 09:3209:32, 5 November 2020 82.37.118.7 talk 14,042 bytes +57 No edit summary undo

curprev 11:4511:45, 9 July 2020 Artoria2e5 talk contribs 13,985 bytes +88 →Group Varint Encoding undo
curprev 11:4311:43, 9 July 2020 Artoria2e5 talk contribs 13,897 bytes −9 →Group Varint Encoding undo
curprev 11:3211:32, 9 July 2020 Artoria2e5 talk contribs 13,906 bytes +289 →Group Varint Encoding undo
curprev 11:2411:24, 9 July 2020 Artoria2e5 talk contribs m 13,617 bytes −21 →Applications and history undo

curprev 21:3521:35, 30 May 2020 192.34.139.25 talk 13,638 bytes +558 The previous reference was a research paper pointing to this original Google Keynote Address. The Google Keynote is the original source. The previously used research paper source pointed to Google, but got the name wrong. It is not GroupVB, but rather Group Varint Encoding. Also, I've made the description a little more complete undo

curprev 10:3910:39, 7 April 2020 Klbrain talk contribs 13,080 bytes −128 Closing stale 2019 merge proposal; no case made, no support over more than a year; LEB128 seems to be an independently notable example of Variable-length quantity and the two are linked undo

curprev 09:0809:08, 16 January 2020 Alhadis talk contribs 13,208 bytes −14 Removed (ironically) redundant "And so forth". undo

curprev 15:5115:51, 17 December 2019 31.0.42.158 talk 13,222 bytes +13 →Applications and history undo

curprev 14:4414:44, 14 October 2019 Tea2min talk contribs m 13,209 bytes +3 →Applications and history: Replace double hyphen-minus with spaced en dash. undo

curprev 17:5517:55, 1 October 2019 Damian Yerrick talk contribs 13,206 bytes +423 →Applications and history: LLVM variable width integers undo

curprev 01:0401:04, 11 September 2019 DavidCary talk contribs 12,783 bytes +88 link to article that goes into more detail on branch-free code. undo

curprev 22:5222:52, 25 August 2019 Eagleash talk contribs m 12,695 bytes 0 →Removing Redundancy: cap undo
curprev 22:5122:51, 25 August 2019 Eagleash talk contribs 12,695 bytes −1 →Variants: space undo
curprev 22:5122:51, 25 August 2019 Eagleash talk contribs 12,696 bytes +1 →Variants: missing ref closing undo
curprev 22:5022:50, 25 August 2019 Eagleash talk contribs 12,695 bytes 0 →Applications and History: cap undo

curprev 14:4514:45, 24 August 2019 DavidCary talk contribs 12,695 bytes +811 mention synonyms, with reference. undo
curprev 13:0913:09, 24 August 2019 DavidCary talk contribs 11,884 bytes +72 put applications and history near the beginning, as suggested by Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science/Manual of style undo

curprev 17:3117:31, 25 July 2019 Joshenders talk contribs m 11,812 bytes +63 →Removing Redundancy: clarifies that prepended octets are zero-padding undo

curprev 02:1602:16, 20 June 2019 Cedar101 talk contribs m 11,749 bytes −24 {{ts}} undo

curprev 19:2519:25, 16 April 2019 Artoria2e5 talk contribs 11,773 bytes +15 →Two's complement undo

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