Assertion: format | /r/HasProperty | a-law
Facets:
value: respectively
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Formats 1 and 27 are μ-law and A-law, respectively, both companding logarithmic representations of PCM, and arguably lossy as they pack what would otherwise be almost 16 bits of dynamic range into 8 bits of encoded data, even though this is achieved by an altered dynamic response and no data is actually "thrown away".