Editing Typical set (section)

===Typical set encoding===
{{see|Shannon's source coding theorem}}
In [[information theory]], typical set encoding encodes only the sequences in the typical set of a stochastic source with fixed length block codes. Since the size of the typical set is about ''2''<sup>nH(X)</sup>, only ''nH(X)'' bits are required for the coding, while at the same time ensuring that the chances of encoding error is limited to ε. Asymptotically, it is, by the AEP, lossless and achieves the minimum rate equal to the entropy rate of the source.

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