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How do I find my Huffman code?
Huffman code is obtained from the Huffman tree. Huffman code is a = 000, b = 001, c = 010, d = 011, e = 1. This is the optimum (minimum-cost) prefix code for this distribution.
Is Huffman encoding still used?
Huffman encoding is widely used in compression formats like GZIP, PKZIP (winzip) and BZIP2 . Huffman encoding still dominates the compression industry since newer arithmetic and range coding schemes are avoided due to their patent issues.
How is Huffman code generated?
Huffman coding uses a greedy algorithm to build a prefix tree that optimizes the encoding scheme so that the most frequently used symbols have the shortest encoding. The prefix tree describing the encoding ensures that the code for any particular symbol is never a prefix of the bit string representing any other symbol.
