• DocumentCode
    1237796
  • Title

    Variations on a Method for Representing Data Items of Unlimited Length

  • Author

    Luccio, Fabrizio

  • Author_Institution
    Dipartimento di Informatica, University of Pisa
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1985
  • fDate
    4/1/1985 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    439
  • Lastpage
    441
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0098-5589
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TSE.1985.232233
  • Filename
    1702026