Huffman coding
The method begins by combining the least likely source words—here beginning with N and S—and effectively reducing the number of sourcewords at each stage. So with 5 source words there are necessarily 4 combination stages (C1–C4). The codeword for each source word is the read back from the right. The average codeword length is
which cannot be bettered.
- vector product
- vector projection
- vector space
- vector subspace
- vector sum
- vector triple product
- velocity
- velocity potential
- velocity ratio
- velocity–time graph
- Venn diagram
- Venn, John
- verification
- vertex
- vertex
- vertex method
- vertex-transitive
- vertical angles
- vinculum
- Vinogradov's Theorem
- virtual work principle
- viscous
- Vitali set
- Viète, François
- Viète's formulae