What Is Huffman Encoding?
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Huffman encoding is a type of data compression algorithm that assigns variable length codes to characters/symbols based on their frequency in a given text. It prioritizes shorter codes for more frequently used characters, and longer codes for less frequently used characters. The result is a smaller file size while preserving the original information. Huffman encoding is widely used to compress text, image, video, and sound files.