Optimal Prefix-Free Codes for Unequal Le
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Phil Bradford; Mordecai J. Golin; Lawrence L. Larmore; Wojciech Rytter
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Article
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2002
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Elsevier Science
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English
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In this paper we discuss the problem of finding optimal prefix-free codes for unequal letter costs, a variation of the classical Huffman coding problem. Our problem consists of finding a minimal cost prefix-free code in which the encoding alphabet consists of unequal cost (length) letters, with leng