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arxiv: cs/0205049 · v1 · pith:3S4XYUMGnew · submitted 2002-05-18 · 💻 cs.DS

Prefix Codes: Equiprobable Words, Unequal Letter Costs

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keywords codingcostshuffmanletterunequalalgorithmcodecodes
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Describes a near-linear-time algorithm for a variant of Huffman coding, in which the letters may have non-uniform lengths (as in Morse code), but with the restriction that each word to be encoded has equal probability. [See also ``Huffman Coding with Unequal Letter Costs'' (2002).]

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