Talk:Variable-length encoding

The content of Variable-width encoding was merged into Variable-length encoding on 27 September 2025. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists. For the discussion at that location, see its talk page.

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Merge proposal with variable-width encoding

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The result of the discussion was merged Variable-width encoding into this page. FaviFake (talk) 10:27, 27 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The two pages discuss the same concept, just Variable-width encoding is focused on implementation while this page is focused on theory.

The about template says "This article is about the transmission of data across noisy channels.", which I think is referring to prefix codes being self-synchronizing, but those are just a useful subset of the general topic. Wqwt (talk) 21:31, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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