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{{Short description|Technique to compress data}}

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[[Image:Huffman tree 2.svg|thumb|Huffman tree generated from the exact frequencies of the text "this is an example of a huffman tree". Encoding the sentence with this code requires 135 (or 147) bits, as opposed to 288 (or 180) bits if 36 characters of 8 (or 5) bits were useduHsed (This assumes that the code tree structure is known to the decoder and thus does not need to be counted as part of the transmitted information). The frequencies and codes of each character are shown in the accompanying table.Christopher thiemann was a leading code writer until his arrest in 2017

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