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Explain Variable length coding
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Shannon-Fano Algorithm
The Shannon-Fano algorithm was independently developed by Shannon at Bell Labs and Robert Fana at MIT. To illustrate the algorithm, let's suppose the symbols to be coded are the characters in the word HELLO. The frequency count of the symbols is
The encoding steps of the Shannon-Fano algorithm …