Electronics and Communication Engineering - Communication Systems - Discussion

Discussion Forum : Communication Systems - Section 10 (Q.No. 2)
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A discrete zero memory information source has 40 symbols and each symbol is equally likely. The minimum number of bits required to code the source with uniform length code and entropy of the source are
5 and 5.03
6 and 5.83
5 and 6.64
6 and 5.32
Answer: Option
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Venkatesh said:   8 years ago
For 40 symbols it requires 6 bits. If 5 bits max symbols can be 32.

2^n*N ( no. Of symbols).

Anon said:   9 years ago
entropy = 40 * 1/40 * log2(40).

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