On 7 February 2016 at 16:42, Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com> wrote:

but following that line of reasoning, aren't they all specialized versions of Huffman encoding?

On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 6:04 PM Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com> wrote:
Not to burst a balloon but check out variable length ints in the Midi File Format for utf-8 in the early 80s.

brucee