Huffman coding is a popular variable-length entropy coding algorithm. Where are the final data character codewords positioned within a built Huffman Tree?

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A Only at the Root node
B Distributed arbitrarily across Internal sub-trees
C Exclusively at the Leaf nodes
D Inside the compression dictionary registry

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Answer: C. Exclusively at the Leaf nodes

Answer: C) Exclusively at the Leaf nodes
Explanation: In a Huffman coding tree, all data symbols reside at the leaves (endpoints) of the tree structure. This architectural property ensures that it is a prefix code, meaning no codeword is a prefix of another, allowing unambiguous decoding without needing separators.

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Huffman coding is a popular variable-length entropy coding algorithm. Where are the final data character codewords positioned within a built Huffman Tree?

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