is how do we avoid ambiguity a simple way to avoid ambiguity when you have variable lengths is when your fix times is very easy first seven bits per character next sum of its next character December's next target but if it's variable length how you know a character has been fully translated and now the next one is starting one way to do this is to ensure that no code word is a prefix of another code word so as you see bits come across the line at some point you'll have seen all the bits for some letter let's say and because no