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nayuki
on Feb 22, 2021
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What Is Huffman Coding?
Indeed, this is an example where each English word in a book gets a unique symbol for the purposes of Huffman coding. Note that the Huffman output is in base 52 (abc...xyzABC...XYZ) alphabet instead of the usual binary.
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