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QWhat is the main idea behind the Huffman coding algorithm?

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  • A Making the locally optimal choice at each step to obtain a globally optimal solution ✔ ✖
  • B Breaking a problem down into smaller subproblems ✔ ✖
  • C Generating all possible solutions and selecting the best one ✔ ✖
  • D Searching for a solution by gradually eliminating possibilities ✔ ✖
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Answer: Making the locally optimal choice at each step to obtain a globally optimal solution

Explanation: The Huffman coding algorithm is a greedy algorithm that constructs a variable-length prefix code for a set of characters based on their frequencies, with the goal of minimizing the average code length.

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