Talk:Golomb coding

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The paper "Optimal source codes for geometrically distributed integer alphabets" by Gallager and Van Voorhis (1975, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory IT-21(2):228-230) is the citation "Managing Gigabytes" gives for the probability distribution quoted in the article, but I haven't had a chance to read the paper myself, so I'm hesitant to add it to the refrences. I'll get to it eventually, but if someone else wants to read it and see if it should be refrenced, please do.Mark Tozzi 06:47, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

their paper is not so great. i can send it to you if you provide email.. []

[edit] insufficient context

This article could use a bit more introductory context to orient non-expert readers.

For example:

  • 'entropy' is introduced without context (cryptanalysis? astrophysics? neoclassical economics? what sense of entropy is relevant here?). Which connotation is not necessarily obvious to those unfamiliar.
  • a quick 1 sentence blurb about what this kind of coding is used for would help (eg data compression, natural language processing, lexical analysis, string functions, whatever). It is implied in the text, but intro could be beefed up a bit.

dr.ef.tymac 16:27, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

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