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In computer science and information theory , a Huffman code is a particular type of optimal prefix code that is commonly used for lossless data compression . The process of finding and/or using such a code proceeds by means of Huffman coding, an algorithm developed by David A. Huffman while he was a Sc.D. student at MIT , and pu