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Lower Bounds of The ‘Useful’ Mean Code Word Length for the Best 1:1 Code


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1 Department of Mathematics, Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak— 124001, India
     

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The mean length of a noiseless uniquely decodable code for a discrete r.v. X satisfies

H(p) + 1 > L ≥ H(P).

where H{P) is the Shannon’s entropy associated with the discrete complete probability distribution P.


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Priti Jain
Department of Mathematics, Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak— 124001, India
R. K. Tuteja
Department of Mathematics, Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak— 124001, India

Abstract


The mean length of a noiseless uniquely decodable code for a discrete r.v. X satisfies

H(p) + 1 > L ≥ H(P).

where H{P) is the Shannon’s entropy associated with the discrete complete probability distribution P.