13. The coder of claim 12, wherein said characteristics are capable of being determined by calculating the value of a fraction having a numerator and a denominator each being related to a number of codevector possibilities wherein said codevector generator only calculates said numerator and examines said numerators to determine which is the largest positive and largest negative.
12. The coder of claim 11, wherein said codevector generator further comprises a scrambler for modifying the sequency properties of transformed codevector possibilities.