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by gymbeaux 494 days ago
What did they call their algorithms before they passed away?
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atiedebee 493 days ago
Looking at the paper linked on the wikipedia page for Huffman Coding, David Huffman referred to Huffman Coding as just "optimum coding" [0]

[0] http://compression.ru/download/articles/huff/huffman_1952_mi...

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