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    Entropy Coding

    Last Updated May 24, 2021 1:42 pm
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    Entropy coding is a type of lossless coding to compress digital data by representing frequently occurring patterns with few bits and rarely occurring patterns with many bits. Huffman coding is a type of entropy coding.

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