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Finite Completion of comma-free codes Part 2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2004

Nguyen Huong Lam*
Affiliation:
Hanoi Institute of Mathematics, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet Road, 10 307 Hanoi, Vietnam; [email protected].
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Abstract

This paper is a sequel to anearlier paper of the present author, in which it was proved thatevery finite comma-free code is embedded into a so-called (finite)canonical comma-free code. In this paper, it is proved that every(finite) canonical comma-free code is embedded into a finite maximal comma-freecode, which thus achieves the conclusion that every finite comma-freecode has finite completions.


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Research Article
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© EDP Sciences, 2004

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