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algorithm FGK

(algorithm)

Definition: An adaptive Huffman coding scheme. Coding is never much worse than twice optimal.

Generalization (I am a kind of ...)
adaptive Huffman coding.

See also Vitter's algorithm.

Author: PEB

More information

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Donald E. Knuth, Dynamic Huffman Coding, Journal of Algorithms, 6(2):163-180, June 1985.


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Paul E. Black, "algorithm FGK", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 17 December 2004. (accessed TODAY) Available from: http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/algorithmFGK.html