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Lecture 17: Huffman Coding (18.200)

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1:17:59·2025·undergraduate level

Reviewing Shannon's theorem, this lecture introduces prefix-free codes and their binary tree decoding, then details Huffman's algorithm for constructing optimal prefix-free codes.

MIT 18.200 Principles of Discrete Applied Mathematics, Spring 2024

Instructor: Ankur Moitra

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