Shannon–Fano coding
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* [[Wikipedia:Shannon–Fano coding|Wikipedia article]] | * [[Wikipedia:Shannon–Fano coding|Wikipedia article]] | ||
Latest revision as of 16:34, 28 January 2022
Shannon–Fano coding is an algorithm for constructing a bit-oriented prefix code, for use in data compression. It is analogous to Huffman coding.
From a file format perspective, most formats that purportedly use Shannon–Fano coding do not actually rely on any particular algorithm, so you can often think of Shannon–Fano coding as a synonym for Huffman coding. An exception would be if a format uses adaptive Shannon–Fano coding.
