Meaning of Huffman coding | Babel Free

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An entropy-encoding algorithm used for lossless data compression, involving a variable-length code table derived from the estimated probability of occurrence of each symbol (so that more frequent symbols take less space to store).

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Examples

“In Huffman coding, shorter code-words are assigned to more frequent symbols so that the average code-length is reduced.”

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