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Data compression plays an important role for storing and transmitting text or multimedia information. This paper refers to a lossless data algorithm is developed in C-platform to compress character string based on Basic Arithmetic Coding. At the preliminary stage, this algorithm was tested for the character array comprising of vowels only and the probability distribution is assumed arbitrarily. The result being obtained is encouraging with compression ratio far beyond unity. Though the algorithm was tested for vowels only but the work can be extended for any character array with probability of distribution as obtained from the survey of few randomly selected articles.
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Mondal, I., Sarkar, S.J. (2017). Basic Arithmetic Coding Based Approach to Compress a Character String. In: Satapathy, S., Bhateja, V., Udgata, S., Pattnaik, P. (eds) Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Frontiers in Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications . Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 515. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3153-3_4
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