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This is correct, and I came to the comments to say the same thing. It takes some work to implement without arbitrary-precision floating point, but arithmetic co
by Darmani 2y ago
This is correct, and I came to the comments to say the same thing. It takes some work to implement without arbitrary-precision floating point, but arithmetic coding can make use of the full entropy in the input stream, whereas the approach in the article discards a lot of information.
- bjornsing 2y agoI had this thought too. But can you be sure that there won’t be any statistical patterns / correlations in the output bitstream with that approach?