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Resource Type: Expository Article
Primary Level: Undergraduate
Additional Level: High School

Huffman Codes and Data Compression

Author: Walter Meyer


Putting messages or data into coded form usually calls to mind the cloak and dagger world of spies and secret communications. But there are reasons besides secrecy for using codes. Sometimes the technology we choose to use forces coding upon us. Morse Code was invented because one cant speak into a telegraph key.

©1984 by COMAP, Inc.
The UMAP Journal 5.3
5 pages

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Application Areas:

Coding

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