Prefix Codes in Use Today
Examples of prefix codes include:
- variable-length Huffman codes
- country calling codes
- the country and publisher parts of ISBNs
- the Secondary Synchronization Codes used in the UMTS W-CDMA 3G Wireless Standard
- VCR Plus+ codes
- the UTF-8 system for encoding Unicode characters, which is both a prefix-free code and a Self-synchronizing code
- the instruction sets (machine language) of most computer microarchitectures
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