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A lower bound on the path length of binary trees

A lower bound on the path length of binary trees

ACM SIGACT News, 1988
Vitit Kantabutra
Abstract
In computer and information science, there exists the important problem of finding a binary tree wit h the minimum weighted path length for a given set of weights. In this problem, the binary tree's leaves are uniquely labeled with positive real weights w 1,..., w,-,(n> 2) in some order, and the weighted path lengt h of the tree is given by E 1 wi th, where d1 is the depth of the leaf labeled with wi. This paper presents a simple, straightforward derivation of a lower bound on the weighted path length. This problem has a long history. Huffman [2] gave an ...

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