The Science of Information: From Language to Black Holes Season 1 Episode 5 Data Compression and Prefix-Free Codes
- TV-PG
- December 11, 2015
- 31 min
Probe the link between entropy and coding. In the process, encounter Shannon's first fundamental theorem, which specifies how far information can be squeezed in a binary code, serving as the basis for data compression. See how this works with a text such as Conan Doyle's The Return of Sherlock Holmes.