# variable-length code

> information theory technique for assigning shorter encoding sequences to more frequently-occurring represented elements

**Wikidata**: [Q2981616](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2981616)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable-length_encoding)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/variable-length-code


## References

1. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)