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Huffman Coding
Contributed by: Singh
  • 1. Who introduced Huffman Coding?
A) David A. Huffman
B) John Smith
C) Alice Jones
D) Robert Johnson
  • 2. Which type of encoding does Huffman Coding use?
A) Fixed-length encoding
B) Variable-length encoding
C) Binary encoding
D) ASCII encoding
  • 3. In Huffman Coding, what type of symbols have shorter codes?
A) Rare symbols
B) Symbols at odd indices
C) Frequent symbols
D) Symbols starting with A
  • 4. What is a prefix code in Huffman Coding?
A) A code that uses only 0s and 1s
B) A code that starts with the same symbol
C) A code where no codeword is a prefix of another
D) A code with equal-length codewords
  • 5. What's the worst-case time complexity of building a Huffman tree?
A) O(n)
B) O(n2)
C) O(log n)
D) O(n log n)
  • 6. Which data structure is commonly used to implement a priority queue in Huffman Coding?
A) Stack
B) Queue
C) Linked list
D) Binary heap
  • 7. In Huffman Coding, what symbol is typically assigned the shortest code?
A) Least frequent symbol
B) Most frequent symbol
C) Symbol with the longest name
D) Symbol with a prime number
  • 8. What is a Huffman tree also known as?
A) Optimal binary tree
B) Perfect tree
C) Balanced tree
D) Complete tree
  • 9. Which step comes after building the Huffman tree in the encoding process?
A) Compressing the data
B) Building a linked list
C) Assigning binary codes to symbols
D) Calculating symbol frequencies
  • 10. What kind of codes does Huffman Coding produce?
A) Suffix codes
B) Postfix codes
C) Infix codes
D) Prefix codes
  • 11. How is the efficiency of Huffman Coding usually measured?
A) Memory consumption
B) Encoding speed
C) Compression ratio
D) Number of symbols
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