Huffman coding
nounEtymology Named after its inventor David A. Huffman (1925–1999).
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Computing, Computing theory, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences 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).
- In Huffman coding, shorter code-words are assigned to more frequent symbols so that the average code-length is reduced.2018, Keshab K. Parhi, Takao Nishitami, editors, Digital Signal Processing for Multimedia Systems, CRC Press, →ISBN:
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- prefix coding