84. AQA GCSE (8525) SLR13 – 3.3 Compression Huffman coding


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AQA Specification Reference - Section 3.3.1 - 3.3.8

In this video we take a look at a form of compression known as Huffman coding. We look at how to interpret a Huffman tree and how you would store a piece of data using one.

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00:00 Compression- Huffman coding
00:09 Intro
00:14 Huffman coding (lossless compression method)
01:05 Binary trees
01:31 Huffman encoding trees
02:09 Things to know for the exam
02:36 Example
05:51 Outro

Last updated: 07.05.25