Lecture

Data Compression and Shannon's Theorem: Definitions

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This lecture covers the definitions of binary codes, including finite sequences of 0s and 1s, prefix-free binary codes, and using binary codes to represent sequences of letters from an alphabet. It also explains how to calculate the average code length based on the probabilities of letters in a sequence.

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