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Huffman coding, as an algorithm derives its power from a bottom-up approach, rather than top-down. As such, it illustrates how nature and human minds work in ways that are often ignored by deliberate, analytical thought.
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A fundamental principle of computer science has broad implications for problem solving in all fields, including how we, as human beings, see the world.
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This page is a summary of: Huffman coding as metaphor, Kybernetes, November 2013, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/k-10-2012-0068.
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