Huffman
Proper noun
Meaning
Huffman
A surname.
Synonyms
Examples
Actress Felicity Huffman struck a plea deal last year, saying she was “deeply ashamed” of her actions and served 11 days in prison.
A Huffman tree that omits unused symbols produces the most optimal code lengths.
A Huffman-threaded interpreter locates subroutines using an index table or tree of pointers that can be navigated by the Huffman code.
A Huffman code is a variable length bit string used to identify a unique token.
Alphabetic trees are Huffman trees with the additional constraint on order, or, equivalently, search trees with the modification that all elements are stored in the leaves.
Another method is to simply prepend the Huffman tree, bit by bit, to the output stream.