entropy coding
Entropy coding is a process of data compression that takes advantage of the knowledge about the statistical properties of the data to represent it with the fewest possible number of bits. It assigns shorter codes to more frequent symbols and longer codes to less frequent symbols to reduce the average number of bits per symbol. This technique is commonly used in lossless compression algorithms.
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