> Technically, we need 9.58 bits, but there is no good way to use that final fraction of a bit. Huffman or arithmetic coding can pretty easily provide that “fr

> Technically, we need 9.58 bits, but there is no good way to use that final fraction of a bit. Huffman or arithmetic coding can pretty easily provide that “fraction” of a bit, at the cost of making decoding more expensive (and not random access).