On 06 Dec 2001 01:30:06PM -0800, Pong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:

> so sacha, in case you're given a project for this course, choose
> to make the file compressor (ala pkzip) using huffman trees. it's
> definitely worth the fun!  

Hehehe... I ran into Huffman encoding in high school, reading through
Sedgewick. (Got so nostalgic that I ran out and got myself "Algorithms
in C". My bookshelf is happy.) 

It was so much fun to do, and actually pretty easy to set up...
Frequency analysis, construction of tree, and then encoding, right? =)
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you the lucky one, your office is right over where the core is buried!
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