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| Character | Hexadecimal | Number of Occurences (n) | Percentage (p) | 
| a | 61 | 2235 | 8.8916 | 
| b | 62 | 455 | 1.8102 | 
| c | 63 | 761 | 3.0275 | 
| d | 64 | 894 | 3.5567 | 
| e | 65 | 3320 | 13.2081 | 
| f | 66 | 698 | 2.7769 | 
| g | 67 | 393 | 1.5635 | 
| h | 68 | 1458 | 5.8004 | 
| i | 69 | 1515 | 6.0272 | 
| j | 6A | 72 | 0.2864 | 
| k | 6B | 46 | 0.1830 | 
| l | 6C | 1067 | 4.2449 | 
| m | 6D | 661 | 2.6297 | 
| n | 6E | 1924 | 7.6544 | 
| o | 6F | 1749 | 6.9581 | 
| p | 70 | 547 | 2.1762 | 
| q | 71 | 30 | 0.1194 | 
| r | 72 | 1600 | 6.3654 | 
| s | 73 | 1737 | 6.9104 | 
| t | 74 | 2474 | 9.8425 | 
| u | 75 | 568 | 2.2597 | 
| v | 76 | 269 | 1.0702 | 
| w | 77 | 266 | 1.0582 | 
| x | 78 | 66 | 0.2626 | 
| y | 79 | 313 | 1.2452 | 
| z | 7A | 18 | 0.0716 | 
| Total: |  | 25136 | 100 | 
 
- Notice vast differences between numbers of occurences of different
  characters.
- For an effective code, we must assign short codes to frequently occurring
  charcaters and longer codes to rare characters
- A systematic way to design an encoding method is Huffman Coding.
 
 
 
 
 
   
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Prof. Bernd-Peter Paris
1998-12-14