How Computers Compress Text: Huffman Coding and Huffman Trees

Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! Computers store text (or, at least, English text) as eight bits per character. There are plenty of more efficient ways that could work: so why don’t we use them? And how can we fit more text into less space? Let’s talk about Huffman coding, Huffman trees, and Will Smith.

Thanks to the Cambridge Centre for Computing History: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/

Thanks to Chris Hanel at Support Class for the graphics: http://supportclass.net

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