Economical encoding of commas between strings

1 April 1978

journal article
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM

Vol. 21 (4), 315-317
https://doi.org/10.1145/359460.359480

Abstract

A method for insertion of delimiters between strings without using new symbols is presented. As the lengths of the strings increase, the extra cost, in terms of prolongation, becomes vanishingly small compared to the lengths of the strings.

Keywords

COMMAS
DELIMITERS
ENCODING OF THE INTEGERS
STRING TRANSMISSION

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