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Codeword vs Rateless - What's the difference?

codeword | rateless |

As a noun codeword

is (cryptography) a string representing an encoded piece of text.

As an adjective rateless is

(mathematics) describing a family of codes whose higher rate codes have codewords that are prefixes of those of the lower rate codes.

codeword

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (cryptography) A string representing an encoded piece of text.
    • Bob cannot get any information out of the codeword since he doesn't know what transmission bases Alice used.
  • A type of crossword puzzle where individual letters are represented by numbers and the solver must identify them by their position and frequency.

    • Derived terms

    * pseudocodeword

    rateless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (mathematics) Describing a family of codes whose higher rate codes have codewords that are prefixes of those of the lower rate codes.

    • Anagrams

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