diff --git a/io/include/pcl/compression/impl/entropy_range_coder.hpp b/io/include/pcl/compression/impl/entropy_range_coder.hpp
index 02aff4055175f3f670de11936fbf7b8b5be6900b..d348b4d5724245a773489f540c0060295dccaf67 100644
--- a/io/include/pcl/compression/impl/entropy_range_coder.hpp
+++ b/io/include/pcl/compression/impl/entropy_range_coder.hpp
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ pcl::StaticRangeCoder::encodeIntVectorToStream (std::vector<unsigned int>& input
 
   // calculate amount of bytes per frequency table entry
   std::uint8_t frequencyTableByteSize = static_cast<std::uint8_t> (std::ceil (
-      std::log2 (static_cast<double> (cFreqTable_[static_cast<std::size_t> (frequencyTableSize - 1)])) / 8.0));
+      std::log2 (static_cast<double> (cFreqTable_[static_cast<std::size_t> (frequencyTableSize - 1)] + 1)) / 8.0));
 
   // write size of frequency table to output stream
   outputByteStream_arg.write (reinterpret_cast<const char*> (&frequencyTableSize), sizeof(frequencyTableSize));