Design a codebook dictionary for the seven colors of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet). Suppose you want to store the color white. Is it possible to change the codebook without lengthening the number of bits per codeword? How would you do it?

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Design a codebook dictionary for the seven colors of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet).  Suppose you want to store the color white.  Is it possible to change the codebook without lengthening the number of bits per codeword? How would you do it?

anonymous · Answer

Is this a computer programming problem? Or just a generic question?