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Comma-free code

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A comma-free code is prefix-free code in which no cyclic shift of a code word is another valid code word.[1]

Comma-free block codes are also known as self-synchronizing block codes[2] because no synchronization is required to find the beginning of a code word.

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References

  1. ^ William Wesley Peterson; E. J. Weldon (1972). Error-correcting Codes. MIT Press. p. 377. ISBN 978-0-262-16039-1.
  2. ^ Donald Knuth (11 December 2015). Univeral Commafree Codes. Stanford University. Retrieved 6 February 2016.
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