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4 unusual facts about Robert Fano


Sequential decoding

The famous Fano algorithm (named after Robert Fano) has a very low memory requirement and hence is suited to hardware implementations.

The Fano metric (named after Robert Fano) allows one to calculate from which is the best node to explore further.

Shannon–Fano coding

In the field of data compression, Shannon–Fano coding, named after Claude Shannon and Robert Fano, is a technique for constructing a prefix code based on a set of symbols and their probabilities (estimated or measured).

Viterbi decoder

There are other algorithms for decoding a convolutionally encoded stream (for example, the Fano algorithm).



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