| | Fibonacci coding -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | Fibonacci coding has a useful property that sometimes makes it attractive in comparison to other universal codes: it is easier to recover data from a damaged stream. |
 | | With most other universal code, if a single (The cutting part of a drill; usually pointed and threaded and is replaceable in a brace or bitstock or drill press) bit is altered, none of the data that comes after it will be correctly read. |
 | | With Fibonacci coding, on the other hand, a changed bit may cause one token to be read as two, or cause two tokens to be read incorrectly as one, but reading a "0" from the stream will stop the errors from propagating further. |
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