简介:Arithmeticcodingisarelativelynewloss-lessdatacompressiontechniquethathasattractedmuchattentioninrecentyears.Weshowtheiterationofbit-levelarithmeticcodingcanbespecifiedbyacontinuousfunction.Theanalysisexpressionandsomepropertiesofthisfunctionarediscussed.Anapplicationofthefunctionisprovidedforexploringthesecurityofarithmeticcodeswhentheyareusedfordataencryption.