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Re:A working entropy encoder with output below the Shannon l... by foobarqux on Monday June 24, 2024 @05:49PM (#40781226)
You are saying that conditional on some additional information (or structure) you can get better compression. But that is saying something tautological: conditional on the entropy being lower the entropy is lower. In your case you are assuming you already know the symbol frequencies and you don’t count that as information. However you are comparing against a model where that is not assumed.

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