Invitation to Computer Science 8th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1337561916
ISBN 13: 978-1-33756-191-4

Chapter 4 - Exercises - Page 218: 17a

Answer

11101 00 10 Saving = 3 bits

Work Step by Step

Value of K is 11101, A is 00 and I is 10 according to the Variable-Length Encoding, meaning a total of 9 bits. With the 4-Bit Encoding it would take 4*3 = 12 bits. The difference is 12-9=3 bits.
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