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Unfortunately, Shannon–Fano coding does not always produce optimal prefix codes; the set of probabilities {0.35, 0.17, 0.17, 0.16, 0.15} is an example of one that will be assigned non-optimal codes by Shannon–Fano coding. Fano's version of Shannon–Fano coding is used in the IMPLODE compression method, which is part of the ZIP file format ...
Shannon–Fano coding methods gave rise to the field of information theory and without its contributions, the world would not have any of the many successors; for example Huffman coding, or arithmetic coding.
Huffman tree generated from the exact frequencies of the text "this is an example of a huffman tree". Encoding the sentence with this code requires 135 (or 147) bits, as opposed to 288 (or 180) bits if 36 characters of 8 (or 5) bits were used (This assumes that the code tree structure is known to the decoder and thus does not need to be counted as part of the transmitted information).
Shannon–Fano–Elias coding produces a binary prefix code, allowing for direct decoding. Let bcode(x) be the rational number formed by adding a decimal point before a binary code. For example, if code(C) = 1010 then bcode(C) = 0.1010. For all x, if no y exists such that
[1] More precisely, the source coding theorem states that for any source distribution, the expected code length satisfies [(())] [ (())], where is the number of symbols in a code word, is the coding function, is the number of symbols used to make output codes and is the probability of the source symbol. An entropy coding attempts to ...
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Note that our canonical Huffman tree always has higher values for longer bit lengths and that any symbols of the same bit length (C and D) have higher code values for higher symbols: A = 10 (code value: 2 decimal, bits: 2) B = 0 (code value: 0 decimal, bits: 1) C = 110 (code value: 6 decimal, bits: 3) D = 111 (code value: 7 decimal, bits: 3)
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