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Scientific American Article | Huffman Coding

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Large networks of IBM computers use it. So do high-definition television, modems and a popular electronic device that takes the brain work out of programming a videocassette recorder. All these digital wonders rely on the results of a 40-year-old term paper by a modest Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student—a data compression scheme known as Huffman encoding.

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