Huffman coding: Difference between revisions

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Huffman coding today is often used as a "back-end" to some other compression method.

[[Data compression/Deflation|Deflation]] (PKZIP's algorithm) and multimedia codecs such as [[JPEG]] and [[MP3]] have a front-end model and quantization followed by Huffman coding.

Note: Huffman coding fails when the set of symbols have a uniform probability distribution.