The use of a radix 5 base for transmission and storage of information

Bradley S. Tice

doi:10.1117/12.762321

7 March 2008 The use of a radix 5 base for transmission and storage of information

Bradley S. Tice

Proceedings Volume 6896, Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XII; 68961H (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.762321
Event: Integrated Optoelectronic Devices 2008, 2008, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

The radix 5 based system employs five separate characters that have no semantic meaning except not representing the other characters. Traditional literature has a random string of binary sequential characters as being "less patterned" than non-random sequential strings. A non-random string of characters will be able to compress, were as a random string of characters will not be able to compress. This study has found that a radix 5 based character length allows for equal compression of random and non-random sequential strings. This has important aspects to information tranmission and storage.

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Bradley S. Tice "The use of a radix 5 base for transmission and storage of information", Proc. SPIE 6896, Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XII, 68961H (7 March 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.762321

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