Talk:ratelessly

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"In a rateless manner" (but it's not clear from (deprecated template usage) rateless what that means). Only one match in Google Books. Equinox 21:54, 17 May 2010 (UTC)Reply

I could not find citations that are independent of the 2 non-independent ones at bgc at Scholar. I found none at all at News or Groups. We are at the top of the Web hits (~160 total). The web hits are consistent with what I found for "rateless" at WP. I found our definition even less comprehensible than what WP had.
From w:Fountain code: "The term fountain or rateless refers to the fact that these codes do not exhibit a fixed code rate." The actual wording of the definition of (deprecated template usage) rateless is left as an exercise for the reader. (ie, I don't have any understanding of what would in the numerator and denominator of a "code rate". I doubt if I could say more than a sentence about w:Category:Coding theory, which seems to be the context, part of mathematical communications theory.) DCDuring TALK 00:00, 18 May 2010 (UTC)Reply
I've added a quotation, presumably the one to which Equinox referred. It appears to be from an edited book — which is to say, from a conference paper invited to be included in said book. I think this maybe has (or maybe should have) the weight of a journal publication. In any case, the sense seems to be of "in a manner that employs a rateless code." Pingku 09:03, 29 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
Cited. - -sche (discuss) 04:09, 27 April 2011 (UTC)Reply