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weinzierl
on Dec 7, 2015
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Donald Knuth's 21st Annual Christmas Lecture: Univ...
If commafree doesn't ring a bell maybe
self-synchronizing
does.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefix_code
kazinator
on Dec 8, 2015
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Indeed. This is useful for picking up a transmission in mid-stream at an arbitrary boundary. Or discovering the start of a sector on a disk, as it spins past the read head, spewing whatever bits it finds.
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