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| | Source coding - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Source coding |
 | | In computing, techniques for reducing the amount of storage needed for a given amount of data. |
 | | They include word tokenization (in which frequently used words are stored as shorter codes), variable bit lengths (in which common characters are represented by fewer bits than less common ones), and run-length encoding (in which a repeated value is stored once along with a count). |
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