What are non-binary Hoffman Codes? - Compression Standard

What are non-binary Hoffman Codes?

- The non-binary Hoffman code elements are derived from an alphabet ’m’ is > 2 letters.

- All the symbols ‘m’ which occur least frequently will be having the same length.

- The lowest probability of the symbols ‘m’ will differ only in the last position.

- The letters that combine have code words of the same length.

- The symbols that have lowest probability will have code words with long length.