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That’s interesting. I guess this is not usually used because you may have a long string of bits that is ambiguous till you get to a disambiguating bit.

Something like

`100000000000000001`

In this case, where to know whether the first code was an `a` or a `c` you have to read all the way to where the zeroes end.



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