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cesarb on June 10, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: A student’s desire to get out of a exam led to a c...

> I'm not familiar with any actively used compression algorithm that uses arithmetic coding.

I believe some popular video codecs use arithmetic coding (and IIRC, some other video codecs use the related range coding to avoid these patents).

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