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Use of a conditional base number system for encoding sequences of correlated characters

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A procedure is described for the relatively efficient encoding of sequences of characters which have predecessor-successor selection rules. The procedure is shown to assign a unique integer to each sequence and to generate a reasonably compact set of values.

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