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Huffman coding was invented when Huffman's professor, Robert Fano, gave a class the option of either taking a regular final exam or solving the optimal encoding
by morelisp 5y ago
Huffman coding was invented when Huffman's professor, Robert Fano, gave a class the option of either taking a regular final exam or solving the optimal encoding problem which (unknown to the students) he and Shannon had been failing to solve for some time.
- dekhn 5y agoIn a class of his that I took he told us that even crumpled up the paper with the solution threw it away then went back and retrieved it and realized it was right