rangecoding
nounUK /ˈreɪndʒˌkəʊdɪŋ/
US /ˈreɪndʒˌkoʊdɪŋ/
A way of making data smaller by turning it into numbers that show where it sits in a range.
The program used rangecoding to shrink the big file before sending it.
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2. A method in computer science for encoding symbols as fractions within a numeric interval.
Rangecoding assigns each symbol a subinterval of the current range.
3. The process of converting a stream of values into a compact coded form using cumulative frequencies.
The encoder performed rangecoding on the image data to reduce its size.
4. A lossless compression technique often compared with Huffman coding.
Rangecoding can beat Huffman coding when symbol probabilities are very uneven.