Elias Omega Coding - Examples

Examples

The first few codes are shown below. Included is the so-called implied distribution, describing the distribution of values for which this coding yields a minimum-size code; see Relationship of universal codes to practical compression for details.

Value Code Implied distribution
1 0 1/2
2 10 0 1/8
3 11 0 1/8
4 10 100 0 1/64
5 10 101 0 1/64
6 10 110 0 1/64
7 10 111 0 1/64
8 11 1000 0 1/128
9 11 1001 0 1/128
10 11 1010 0 1/128
11 11 1011 0 1/128
12 11 1100 0 1/128
13 11 1101 0 1/128
14 11 1110 0 1/128
15 11 1111 0 1/128
16 10 100 10000 0 1/2048
17 10 100 10001 0 1/2048
...
100 10 110 1100100 0 1/8192
1000 11 1001 1111101000 0 1/131,072
1,000,000 10 100 10011 11110100001001000000 0 1/2,147,483,648

The encoding for 1 googol, 10100, is 11 1000 101001100 followed by the binary representation of 1 googol, which is 10010 01001001 10101101 00100101 10010100 11000011 01111100 11101011 00001011 00100111 10000100 11000100 11001110 00001011 11110011 10001010 11001110 01000000 10001110 00100001 00011010 01111100 10101010 10110010 01000011 00001000 10101000 00101110 10001111 00010000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 and a trailing 0, for a total of 349 bits.

The encoding for a googol to the hundredth power, 1010000, is 33243 bits long; under Elias delta coding, the same number is 33250 bits long. Interestingly, log2(1010000) is about 33219 bits, so in this instance, omega and delta coding are, respectively, only 0.07% and 0.09% short of optimal.

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