How Computers Compress Text: Huffman Coding and Huffman Trees

Summary 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.

S7.E37 ∙ How Computers Compress Text: Huffman Coding and Huffman Trees

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Stars : Tom Scott Matt Gray Paul Curry Gary Brannan

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Sep 10, 2017

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : Official YouTube Channel Uploads

Language : English

Production companies : Pad 26 Limited

Summary 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.

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Sep 10, 2017

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : Official YouTube Channel Uploads

Language : English

Production companies : Pad 26 Limited

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