• Truncated binary encoding is an entropy encoding typically used for uniform probability distributions with a finite alphabet. It is parameterized by an...
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  • Rice–Golomb encoding, where the remainder code uses simple truncated binary encoding, also named "Rice coding" (other varying-length binary encodings, like...
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  • In computer programming, Base64 is a group of binary-to-text encoding schemes that transforms binary data into a sequence of printable characters, limited...
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  • distributions Truncated binary encoding Unary coding: code that represents a number n with n ones followed by a zero Universal codes: encodes positive integers...
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    length of the representation of a number in the binary numeral system, or the number of bits needed to encode a message in information theory. In computer...
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  • UTF-8 (redirect from UTF-8 encoding)
    variable-width encoding of one to four one-byte (8-bit) code units. Code points with lower numerical values, which tend to occur more frequently, are encoded using...
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  • length encodings are inefficient in situations where some words are much more likely to be transmitted than others. Truncated binary encoding is a straightforward...
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  • Binary angular measurement (BAM) (and the binary angular measurement system, BAMS) is a measure of angles using binary numbers and fixed-point arithmetic...
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    Context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) Data compression Entropy encoding Huffman coding Range encoding Run-length encoding Ze-Nian Li; Mark...
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  • In computing, half precision (sometimes called FP16 or float16) is a binary floating-point computer number format that occupies 16 bits (two bytes in modern...
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  • Ascii85 (category Binary-to-text encoding formats)
    the patch encoding for binary files used by Git. The basic need for a binary-to-text encoding comes from a need to communicate arbitrary binary data over...
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  • Two's complement (category Binary arithmetic)
    remaining four encode negative numbers, maintaining their growing order, so making 4 encode −4, 5 encode −3, 6 encode −2 and 7 encode −1. A binary representation...
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  • IEEE 754 (category Binary arithmetic)
    encoding. There are three binary floating-point basic formats (encoded with 32, 64 or 128 bits) and two decimal floating-point basic formats (encoded...
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  • A binary prefix is a unit prefix that indicates a multiple of a unit of measurement by an integer power of two. The most commonly used binary prefixes...
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    is a control character or sequence of control characters in character encoding specifications such as ASCII, EBCDIC, Unicode, etc. This character, or...
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    754 encoding, this becomes the significand s. The significand is assumed to have a binary point to the right of the leftmost bit. So, the binary representation...
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  • differential encoding algorithms include: Delta modulation quantizes and encodes differences between consecutive audio samples by encoding the derivative...
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  • saving UUIDs to binary format, they are sequentially encoded in big-endian. For example, 00112233-4455-6677-8899-aabbccddeeff is encoded as the bytes 00...
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    SGML subset, was used to produce a human-readable text-based encoding. Such an encoding can be useful for persistent objects that may be read and understood...
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  • The UTF-5 proposal used a base 32 encoding, where Punycode is (among other things, and not exactly) a base 36 encoding. The name UTF-5 for a code unit of...
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  • most common variants are decimal (base 10) and binary (base 2). The latter is commonly known also as binary scaling. Thus, if n fraction digits are stored...
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  • Bfloat16 floating-point format (category Binary arithmetic)
    bits are laid out as follows: The bfloat16 binary floating-point exponent is encoded using an offset-binary representation, with the zero offset being...
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    then the 15-bit truncated color values can be used in the next step to create a smaller histogram. Also, since each 15-bit binary color vector is presumably...
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  • octet is the Most Significant Byte (MSB). This is an example of the binary encoding of a 60-octet submit_sm PDU. The data is shown in Hex octet values...
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  • each x in X, Let Z be the binary expansion of F ¯ ( x ) {\displaystyle {\bar {F}}(x)} . Choose the length of the encoding of x, L ( x ) {\displaystyle...
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    digits. In contrast, truncation does not suffer from this problem; for example, a simple string search for "3.1415", which is π truncated to four digits, will...
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  • always result in an intuitive API. Null-terminated strings require that the encoding does not use a zero byte (0x00) anywhere; therefore it is not possible...
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  • to a very simple fixed encoding length, and other have variable-length. Usually it is RISC architectures that have fixed encoding length and CISC architectures...
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  • in order to have similar exponent range in binary, 9 exponent bits would be required. Consider encoding the value −118.625 as an HFP single-precision...
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  • Unicode Consortium. Everson, Michael (October 21, 2011). "Proposal for encoding the Mende script in the SMP of the UCS" (PDF). UTC Document Register. Unicode...
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