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August 31st, 2003, 06:02 AM

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LZW and LZ78

Hello all:
Would anyone tell me the different between the LZW and LZ78.

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September 2nd, 2003, 05:27 PM

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It seems that the main difference is that LZW has a predefined table, but LZ78 encodes the table into the data stream.

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