Title :
Variations on a Method for Representing Data Items of Unlimited Length
Author :
Luccio, Fabrizio
Author_Institution :
Dipartimento di Informatica, University of Pisa
fDate :
4/1/1985 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A recent encoding method [11 is revisited here, and two simple variations are proposed to reduce the length of the encoded data strings. The new variations also decrease encoding time, and allow numerical data to be represented in any base.
Keywords :
Data length specification; decoding numbers; encoding numbers; storing data in memory; unlimited length data; variable length data; Costs; Decoding; Encoding; Information retrieval; Data length specification; decoding numbers; encoding numbers; storing data in memory; unlimited length data; variable length data;
Journal_Title :
Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TSE.1985.232233