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  • 1Prefix code — A prefix code is a code, typically a variable length code, with the prefix property : no code word is a prefix of any other code word in the set. A code with code words {0, 10, 11} has the prefix property; a code consisting of {0, 1, 10, 11} does …

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  • 2Line code — An example of coding a binary signal using rectangular pulse amplitude modulation with polar non return to zero code …

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  • 3Telegraph code — A telegraph code is a character encoding used to transmit information through telegraphy machines. The most famous such code is Morse code. Manual telegraph codes Morse code can be transmitted and received with very primitive equipment.It encodes …

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  • 4Huffman coding — Huffman tree generated from the exact frequencies of the text this is an example of a huffman tree . The frequencies and codes of each character are below. Encoding the sentence with this code requires 135 bits, as opposed of 288 bits if 36… …

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  • 5Coding theory — is the study of the properties of codes and their fitness for a specific application. Codes are used for data compression, cryptography, error correction and more recently also for network coding. Codes are studied by various scientific… …

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  • 6information theory — the mathematical theory concerned with the content, transmission, storage, and retrieval of information, usually in the form of messages or data, and esp. by means of computers. [1945 50] * * * ▪ mathematics Introduction       a mathematical… …

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  • 7japan — japanner, n. /jeuh pan /, n., adj., v., japanned, japanning. n. 1. any of various hard, durable, black varnishes, originally from Japan, for coating wood, metal, or other surfaces. 2. work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner. 3. Japans,… …

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  • 8Japan — /jeuh pan /, n. 1. a constitutional monarchy on a chain of islands off the E coast of Asia: main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. 125,716,637; 141,529 sq. mi. (366,560 sq. km). Cap.: Tokyo. Japanese, Nihon, Nippon. 2. Sea of, the… …

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  • 9cryptology — cryptologist, n. cryptologic /krip tl oj ik/, cryptological, adj. /krip tol euh jee/, n. 1. cryptography. 2. the science and study of cryptanalysis and cryptography. [1635 45; < NL cryptologia. See CRYPTO , LOGY] * * * Introduction …

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  • 10telecommunication — [tel΄ə kə myo͞o΄ni kā′shən] n. [also pl., with sing. or pl. v.] communication by electronic or electric means, as through radio, telephone, telegraph, television, or computers * * * tel·e·com·mu·ni·ca·tion (tĕlʹĭ kə myo͞o nĭ kāʹshən) n. 1. The&#8230; …

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