The pros and cons of democracy

We introduce the concept of "democracy," in which the individual bits in a coarsely quantized representation of a signal are all given "equal weight" in the approximation to the original signal. We prove that such democratic representations cannot achieve the same accuracy as optimal nondemocratic schemes.

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