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Arithmetic coding, the termination symbol, and the empty string
Suppose the source alphabet is $a, b, c$ with $a$ as the termination symbol and so the unit interval is correspondingly divided as
$[0, P(a), P(a)+P(b), 1]$.
Strings consisting of a bunch of $b$'s ...
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