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A variation called "adaptive Huffman coding" calculates the frequencies dynamically based on recent actual frequencies in the source string.
 
ExtremExtreme cases of Huffman codes are connected with Fibonacci numbers. For example, see (http://mathforum.org/discuss/sci.math/t/207334).
 
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.
[[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.