Sibling leaves in a code tree
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Two leaves of a code tree with the same parent in a rooted tree. Their codewords have a common initial segment and differ only in the final bit: . Their leaf depth in a code tree is equal. The Huffman sibling property places two chosen least weights at such leaves in some optimal prefix code.
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