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The earlier introduced arithmetic coding idea has been generalized to a very broad and flexible coding technique which includes virtually all known variable rate noiseless coding techniques as special cases. An outstanding feature of this technique is that alphabet extensions are not required. A complete decodability analysis is given. The relationship of arithmetic coding to other known nonblock codes is illuminated.
Rissanen et al. (Thu,) studied this question.