02-03-2026, 01:42 PM
(02-03-2026, 11:44 AM)Mauro wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I used Huffman codes to compress the text
Entropy gives you a theoretical number of bits, it's better for any purpose other than actual compression (like estimating the amount of information). With Huffman codes that are actual sequences of bits (not fractions) performance is a little worse (more bits).