A discrete memoryless source has an alphabet {a 1 , a2, a3, a4} with corresponding probabilities \{\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{4},\frac{1}{8},\frac{1}{8}\}. The minimum required average codeword length in bits to represent this source for error-free reconstruction is ________

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A discrete memoryless source has an alphabet {a₁, a2, a3, a4} with corresponding probabilities

\{\;{1}/{2},\;{1}/{4},\;{1}/{8},\;{1}/{8}\}

. The minimum required average codeword length in bits to represent this source for error-free reconstruction is ________

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