longest huffman codeword

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I'm not quite sure how to determine what the longest possible codeword is under Huffman encoding for a specific set of frequencies?

Any ideas?

That sounds like a homework question? – Kaleb Pederson Oct 21 '10 at 21:23 — Kaleb Pederson, Oct 21 '10 at 21:23
Then you need to study Huffman encoding. – JoshD Oct 21 '10 at 21:24 — JoshD, Oct 21 '10 at 21:24

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 21 '10 at 21:30

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For a specific set of frequencies? Generate your tree, then see how tall it is... If you're talking about in general, then it's something like N - 1.

answered Oct 21 '10 at 21:30

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 18 '15 at 15:52

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Abu-Mostafa and McEliece provide an answer in terms of the probability of the least frequent symbol. The paper also has references to related work on similar questions.

http://tmo.jpl.nasa.gov/progress_report/42-110/110N.PDF

answered Feb 18 '15 at 15:52

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