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The 2 of 5 encoding reminded me of "8 to 10" codes [1], which (as far as know) is still in use by disk and tape drives. It's for a slightly different reason th
by __david__ 8y ago
The 2 of 5 encoding reminded me of "8 to 10" codes [1], which (as far as know) is still in use by disk and tape drives. It's for a slightly different reason than the 2 of 5 code but it's roughly the same idea.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8b/10b_encoding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8b/10b_encoding
- userbinator 8y ago...and those have been expanded to even bigger units: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64b/66b_encoding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64b/66b_encoding Disk drives use a variant of RLL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-length_limited https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-length_limited