Huffman coding
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Etymology edit
Named after its inventor David A. Huffman (1925–1999).
Noun edit
Huffman coding (countable and uncountable, plural Huffman codings)
- (computing theory) 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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Further reading edit
- Huffman coding on Wikipedia.Wikipedia