Home / Information theory / what is prefix free code? what is prefix free code? Author: Shakil Ahammad Category: Information theory 11 Aug 18 Prefix code or prefix free code is an encoding scheme where no codeword is a prefix of another codeword. Lets see another example Q={011, 110100, 0101 } here none of the codewords is a prefix of any codewords of the code Q. So Q code is a prefix code of prefix free code. Related Posts what is code? by Shakil Ahammad what is logarithm and its type? by Shakil Ahammad About the Author shakil Student of the department of Communication systems and network engineering at Technical University of cologne. Facebook: shakil07eee ; Twitter: shaekil ; Instagram: shaekil Leave a Reply Cancel replyYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Name:* Email:* Website : Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.