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: 17b

Answer

11100 00 11110 10 Saving : 2

Work Step by Step

Value of M is 11100, A is 00, U is 11110 and I is 10 according to the Variable-Length Encoding, meaning a total of 14 bits. With the 4-Bit Encoding it would take 4*4 = 16 bits. The difference is 16-14=2 bits.
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