Huffman coding

== English == === Etymology === Named after its inventor David A. Huffman (1925–1999). === Noun === Huffman coding (countable and uncountable, plural Huffman codings) (computing theory) An entropy-encoding algorithm used for lossless data compression, involving a variable-length code table derived from the estimated probability of occurrence of each symbol (so that more frequent symbols take less space to store). ==== Hypernyms ==== prefix coding ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === Huffman coding on Wikipedia.Wikipedia