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Different starting datasets require a different number of codewords in order not to lose any information in the compression. The codewords are designated by numbers on the tabs. The "key" is prepended to the encoded array; the case of the initial example, for instance, shows that and . Dots are placed on the last member of each codeword. In the first example, each codeword is only one member long, but in other examples the codewords are longer.