Enhanced Ternary Fibonacci Codes.

Extending previous work on non-binary Fibonacci codes, a new ternary variant is proposed sharing the main features like robustness against errors and ease of encoding and decoding, while improving the compression efficiency relative to other ternary codes. The improvement is based on an increased density of the codes and also shown empirically on large textual examples. A motivation for d -ary codes, with d > 2 , may be the emergence of future technologies that enable the representation of more than just two values in an atomic storage unit.