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soheil on Feb 22, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: What Is Huffman Coding?

It's a compression technique used in stuff like PNG and gzip, saved you a click.

willis936 on Feb 22, 2021 | [–]

It's an optimal prefix code. If you already know what that sentence means then you can save the click.

blueline on Feb 22, 2021 | [–]

The historical significance of it is a hell of a lot more than that

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