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The basic idea is borrowed from an older and slightly less efficient method called
[[Data compression/Shannon-Fano coding|Shannon-Fano coding]]
The text to be compressed is considered as a [[string]] of symbols. Symbols that are likely to be frequent are represented by a short sequence of [[bit]]s, and symbols that are likely to be rare are represented by a longer sequences of bits.
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