Initialization with Uniform Distribution

For initialization a frequency of 1 is assigned to each possible symbol independently from its later use. The code tree generated in this way will afterwards be adapted successively with every encoded symbol.

The code length of the individual elements is identical to a fixed length code which is a particular case of a variable length code. If a message source is able to generate 8 different messages, a code length of 3 bit (ld 8) is required.

Initial code tree with 8 symbols:

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