# range coding

> entropy coding method defined by G. Nigel N. Martin in a 1979 paper, which effectively rediscovered the FIFO arithmetic code first introduced by Richard Clark Pasco in 1976

**Wikidata**: [Q818947](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q818947)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_coding)  
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## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013