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This online calculator generates Shannon-Fano coding for sets of symbols and their probabilities. It displays the symbol, probability, and encoding. Shannon-Fano coding arranges symbols from most to least probable and splits them into two sets of equal probability to assign initial 0s and 1s to codes. It produces efficient variable-length codes but is not always optimal like Huffman coding. Huffman coding achieves the lowest expected code word length and is preferred over Shannon-Fano coding.

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Huffman

This online calculator generates Shannon-Fano coding for sets of symbols and their probabilities. It displays the symbol, probability, and encoding. Shannon-Fano coding arranges symbols from most to least probable and splits them into two sets of equal probability to assign initial 0s and 1s to codes. It produces efficient variable-length codes but is not always optimal like Huffman coding. Huffman coding achieves the lowest expected code word length and is preferred over Shannon-Fano coding.

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Shannon-Fano coding

This online calculator generates Shannon-Fano coding based on a set of symbols and their
probabilities

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This online calculator produces Shannon-Fano coding for set of symbols given their probabilities. A
bit of theory can be found below the calculator.

Shannon–Fano coding

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Symbols probability table

Name Value

A 25 mode_edit

B 25 mode_edit

C 20 mode_edit

D 15 mode_edit

E 10 mode_edit
Name Value

F 5 mode_edit

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Calculation precision
Digits after the decimal point: 2
CALCULATE
Weighted path length
2.45
Shannon entropy
2.42

Symbol Encoding

B 01

A 00

C 10

D 110

E 1110

F 1111

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Shannon-Fano coding

In the field of data compression, Shannon–Fano coding, named after Claude Shannon and Robert
Fano, is a technique for constructing a prefix code based on a set of symbols and their probabilities
(estimated or measured). It is suboptimal in the sense that it does not achieve the lowest possible
expected code word length like Huffman coding.

In Shannon–Fano coding, the symbols are arranged in order from most probable to least probable,
and then divided into two sets whose total probabilities are as close as possible to being equal. All
symbols then have the first digits of their codes assigned; symbols in the first set receive "0" and
symbols in the second set receive "1". As long as any sets with more than one member remain, the
same process is repeated on those sets, to determine successive digits of their codes. When a set has
been reduced to one symbol this means the symbol's code is complete and will not form the prefix of
any other symbol's code.

The algorithm produces fairly efficient variable-length encodings; when the two smaller sets
produced by a partitioning are in fact of equal probability, the one bit of information used to
distinguish them is used most efficiently. Unfortunately, Shannon–Fano does not always produce
optimal prefix codes; the set of probabilities {0.35, 0.17, 0.17, 0.16, 0.15} is an example of one that
will be assigned non-optimal codes by Shannon–Fano coding.

For this reason, Shannon–Fano is almost never used; Huffman coding is almost as computationally
simple and produces prefix codes that always achieve the lowest expected code word length, under
the constraints that each symbol is represented by a code formed of an integral number of bits

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