Range coding

Range coding - entropy coding method defined by G. Nigel N. Martin in a 1979 paper, which effectively rediscovered the FIFO arithmetic code first introduced by Richard Clark Pasco in 1976. Article "Range coding" in English Wikipedia has 20.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 6 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

In June 2025 the article "Range coding" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Range coding", its content was written by 47 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 100 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 155 times in English Wikipedia and cited 566 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4964 in August 2003
• Global: #6763 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #264713 in March 2009
• Global: #358626 in March 2009

There are 9 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Range coding		20.9103
2	French (fr) Codage par intervalle		12.8418
3	Russian (ru) Интервальное кодирование		12.4401
4	Ukrainian (uk) Інтервальне кодування		12.1371
5	Chinese (zh) 区间编码		11.505
6	Japanese (ja) レンジ符号		10.6679
7	German (de) Bereichskodierung		9.8176
8	Spanish (es) Rango de codificación		8.6827
9	Korean (ko) 범위 부호화		2.0091

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Range coding" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Range coding		249 037
2	Japanese (ja) レンジ符号		45 345
3	German (de) Bereichskodierung		27 410
4	Chinese (zh) 区间编码		13 827
5	Spanish (es) Rango de codificación		10 933
6	Russian (ru) Интервальное кодирование		10 815
7	French (fr) Codage par intervalle		4 981
8	Korean (ko) 범위 부호화		4 867
9	Ukrainian (uk) Інтервальне кодування		575

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Range coding" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Range coding		1 293
2	Japanese (ja) レンジ符号		112
3	Chinese (zh) 区间编码		60
4	Russian (ru) Интервальное кодирование		46
5	French (fr) Codage par intervalle		32
6	German (de) Bereichskodierung		26
7	Spanish (es) Rango de codificación		15
8	Korean (ko) 범위 부호화		11
9	Ukrainian (uk) Інтервальне кодування		6

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Range coding" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Range coding		47
2	German (de) Bereichskodierung		17
3	Japanese (ja) レンジ符号		10
4	Spanish (es) Rango de codificación		7
5	Russian (ru) Интервальное кодирование		6
6	Chinese (zh) 区间编码		6
7	French (fr) Codage par intervalle		3
8	Korean (ko) 범위 부호화		2
9	Ukrainian (uk) Інтервальне кодування		2

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Range coding" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Range coding		1
2	German (de) Bereichskodierung		0
3	Spanish (es) Rango de codificación		0
4	French (fr) Codage par intervalle		0
5	Japanese (ja) レンジ符号		0
6	Korean (ko) 범위 부호화		0
7	Russian (ru) Интервальное кодирование		0
8	Ukrainian (uk) Інтервальне кодування		0
9	Chinese (zh) 区间编码		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Range coding" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Range coding		155
2	Japanese (ja) レンジ符号		91
3	Russian (ru) Интервальное кодирование		79
4	Korean (ko) 범위 부호화		55
5	Chinese (zh) 区间编码		55
6	Ukrainian (uk) Інтервальне кодування		53
7	French (fr) Codage par intervalle		51
8	German (de) Bereichskodierung		25
9	Spanish (es) Rango de codificación		2

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#	Language	Value
de	German Bereichskodierung
en	English Range coding
es	Spanish Rango de codificación
fr	French Codage par intervalle
ja	Japanese レンジ符号
ko	Korean 범위 부호화
ru	Russian Интервальное кодирование
uk	Ukrainian Інтервальне кодування
zh	Chinese 区间编码

Best Rank

English: #264713 03.2009

Global: #358626 03.2009

Best Rank

English: #4964 08.2003

Global: #6763 03.2002

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