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From: Praneeth Surapaneni <115913042+praneeth776@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 20:02:08 -0800
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+# Huffman Coding
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+## 📜 Project Description
+This project implements **Huffman Coding**, a widely-used lossless data compression algorithm. It is based on creating variable-length codes for characters, with shorter codes assigned to more frequent characters. This approach minimizes the overall storage requirements.
+
+Huffman Coding is commonly used in file compression formats such as ZIP and image formats like JPEG.
+
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+## 🚀 Features
+- **Encoding**: Compress text files using Huffman Encoding.
+- **Decoding**: Decompress encoded files to their original text.
+- **Frequency Calculation**: Calculate character frequencies to generate the Huffman tree.
+- **Custom Input**: Accepts user-defined text for encoding and decoding.
+
+---
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+## 📂 Folder Structure