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separate codebooks. Compression example Imagine an original vector of size 1024 which stores floats (32 bits) was divided into n = 8 subvectors where each subvector is encoded by one of k = 256 clusters. Therefore, encoding the ID of a single cluster would require log(256) = 8 bits. Let us compare