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Line 1: '''Unary coding''' is an [[entropy encoding]] that represents a [[natural number]], ''n'', with ''n'' − 1 ones followed by a zero. For example 5 is represented as 11110. Some representations use ''n'' ~~ones~~zeros followed by a ~~zero~~one. The ones and zeros are interchangeable without loss of generality. Unary coding is an optimally efficient encoding for the following discrete [[probability distribution]]

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