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