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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by CyborgTosser (talk | contribs) at 12:10, 23 January 2005. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

I've rewritten what was here to be grammatically correct English. Later I hope to go back and edit, to put in detail on actual range encoding, and remove the claim added by Suns which seems (as far as I can tell) to be based solely on one particular implementation of range encoding, not on range encoding itself. (Why is arithmetic coding on the page arithmetic encoding, Huffman coding on the page Huffman encoding, but range encoding on the page Range encoder?)


What exactly is the difference between range and arithmetic encoding? I can't seem to see any difference in principle. This sentence from the article

Arithmatic coding can be thought of as a form of range encoding with the range starting at zero and extending to one.

seems to confirm my suspicion that they are slightly different ways of describing the same thing. CyborgTosser (Only half the battle) 12:10, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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