Assignment of Intervals to Codes

The symbols are identified by any number, which falls into the interval concerned. All values, which are greater or equal than 0.0 and less than 0.4, will be interpreted as 'a' for example.

Examples: assigning codes and intervals:

Symbol  Sub-Interval
   a     [0.0; 0.4)
   b     [0.4; 0.6)
   c     [0.6; 0.8)
   d     [0.8; 0.9)
   e     [0.9; 1.0)

Code Word  Sub-Interval  Symbol
   0.1      [0.0; 0.4)    -> a
   0.2      [0.0; 0.4)    -> a
   0.4      [0.4; 0.6)    -> b
   0.55     [0.4; 0.6)    -> c
   0.99     [0.9; 1.0)    -> e

All intervals have a closed lower endpoint (indicated by '[') and an open upper endpoint (indicated by ')'). The lower endpoint always belongs to the interval, while the upper endpoint is placed outside. I.e. the value 1 might be never encoded in this context.

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