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An introduction to data compression with arithmetic coding (marknelson.us)
3 points by thristian on Nov 20, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



The BWT is also rather interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrows%E2%80%93Wheeler_transf... . An efficient implementation is fairly simple, but not at all intuitive.




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