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Proof of Theorem 3.7 The Huffman tree is optimal.

A nice tidy proof that the Huffman tree is an optimal prefix code for a given message. Note that a library reader finds that there is an error in the fixed-length codes listed in Table 1, a and b have duplicate values.

http://maths.abdn.ac.uk/~igc/tch/mx4002/notes/node59.html

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Posted in December 16th, 1999

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