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Decoding of Canonical Huffman Codes with Look-Up Tables
Yakov Nekritch
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We describe an efficient algorithm for decoding canonical Huffman codes with look-up tables. Furthermore, a connection between the probability of a symbol and the length of its codeword in a Huffman code is investigated. We design a method for estimating probabilities of codewords in a given Huffman code. We show how this method can be used to estimate a ``good'' size for the look-up table used in the decoding.

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