ate. convolutions, thousands of dormant atoms, into which God has put a mystic possibility for noticing an adults act, and figuring out its purport. Also well known in this genre is the later 1969 French novel La Disparition (G. Perec), translated into English in 1995 as A Void, while fully respecting the author's spirit and using no E. Other translations of Perec's novel also exist in German and Danish, although the stunt was too hard in this last case for a full translation. To complete the story of such literary oddities, an early pioneer of the genre is reportedly H. Holland, who wrote a short 1928 novel called Eve's Legend, which uses no vowels other than E. In the same style, the author Perec also published Les Revenentes (1972). Here is a sample of Eve's Legend: Men were never perfect, yet the three brethren Veres were ever esteemed, respected, revered, even when the rest, whether the select few, whether the mere herd, were left neglected www.webrary.org/Maillist/msg/2001/2/Re.missingletterquotEquot.html, ww.ling.ed.ac.uk/linguist//issues/11/11-1701.html#?CFID=18397914&CFTOKEN=46891046. 10.2 Arithmetic coding Consider the basic example of a source X = {a, b, c} with probabilities px(xi) = {0.4,0.4,0.2}. We assume that symbol C is exclusively used to signal the end of message. The interval containing all real values p such that 0 < p < is noted [0, 1). Our encoder's program then proceeds as follows (Fig. 10.1): Step 1: The interval [0, 1) is first divided into three subintervals [0.0, 0.4), [0.4, 0.8), and [0.8, 1.0), corresponding to the symbol events a, b, and c, respectively. The interval [0,1) is also divided into two equal regions, labeled in binary with prefixes 0 and 1, as shown in the right-hand side. We observe from the figure that the prefix 1 SO far corresponds to either a or b, and the prefix 0 to either b or C. Step 2: Each of the previous subintervals, except the last one [0.8, 1.0), corresponding to event c, is divided into three subintervals, the widths of which correspond to the joint proba