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Explain Huffman algorithm with an example
written 8.8 years ago by gravatar for teamques10 teamques10 ★ 69k modified 2.5 years ago by gravatar for sagarkolekar sagarkolekar ★ 11k
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written 8.8 years ago by gravatar for teamques10 teamques10 ★ 69k
  • Huffman algorithm or Huffman coding is an entropy encoding algorithm.
  • It is used widely for data compression (like Winzip Compression-Winzip doesn’t use it but!)
  • Huffman coding is used in JPEG compression.
  • The key idea behind Huffman coding is to encode the most common characters using shorter strings of bits than …

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