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Advantages of arithmetic coding over Huffman coding

  • Arithmetic coding surpasses the Huffman techniques in its compression ability.
  • The Huffman method assigns an integral number of bits to each symbol, while arithmetic coding assigns one log code to the entire input string.
  • Arithmetic coding consists of a few arithmetic operations due to its complexity is less.
  • In terms of complexity, arithmetic coding is asymptotically better than Huffman coding.