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Prove the following two properties of the Huffman encoding scheme.(a) If some character oc...

Prove the following two properties of the Huffman encoding scheme.

(a) If some character occurs with frequency more than 2/5, then there is guaranteed to be a codeword of length 1.


(b) If all characters occur with frequency less than 1/3, then there is guaranteed to be no codeword of length 1.

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