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Article #1536Re: huffman encoding
From: Mike (I'll think of something ye...
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 1989 21:39
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 1989 21:39
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In article <486@crash.cts.com> uzun@pnet01.cts.com (Roger Uzun) writes: <I had misunderstood huffman encoding then. I thought that regardless of <the actual frequency of a token in a file, the bit pattern and bit length <used to encode that token was dependent only on its relative frequency to <other tokens in the file. Correct, you had misundersood the encoding. Out of curiosity, what's the application (apologies if you stated this before and I missed it)? There may still be a suitable encoding scheme for it. <mike -- Don't tell me how to live my life Mike Meyer Don't tell me what to do mwm@berkeley.edu Repression is always brought about ucbvax!mwm by people with politics and attitudes like you. mwm@ucbjade.BITNET
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!eris.berkeley.edu!mwm From: mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: huffman encoding Message-ID: <1989Oct5.213950.10193@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 5 Oct 89 21:39:50 GMT References: <486@crash.cts.com> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator;;;;ZU44) Reply-To: mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 19