 A Method for the Construction of Minimum-Redundancy Codes by David A. Huffman

By David A. Huffman.

Published in Proceedings of the IRE.

Online text: cs.nyu.edu/home/people/in_memoriam/roweis/csc310-2006/extras/huffman_1952_minimum-redundancy-codes.pdf

Cited passages: David A. Huffman, A Method for the Construction of Minimum-Redundancy Codes, p. 1099, Derived Coding Requirements: equal-probability messages may have unequal lengths and may exchange codes without changing the mean; David A. Huffman, A Method for the Construction of Minimum-Redundancy Codes, p. 1099: Derived Coding Requirements and Optimum Binary Code.