Wouldn't something like this also work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_omega_coding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_omega_coding I've used to great eff

Wouldn't something like this also work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_omega_coding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_omega_coding I've used to great effect for compression