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Binary code is the language of computers and electronic devices. The use of binary numbers date back to ancient Egypt, but it was 17th-century philosopher and mathematician, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, ...

A binary code used to represent digits generated from a mechanical sensor that may be prone to error. Used in telegraphy in the late 1800s, and also known as ...

A digital standard that has been specified at the lowest working level. Standards organizations often provide specifications that can be interpreted in different ways by vendors. A binary standard ...

An algorithm is given for constructing an alphabetic binary tree of minimum weighted path length (for short, an optimal alphabetic tree). The algorithm needs 4n 2 + 2n operations and 4n storage ...