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Huffman trees and Fibonacci numbers. (English. Russian original) Zbl 0656.68066

Cybernetics 22, No. 6, 692-696 (1986); translation from Kibernetika 1986, No. 6, 9-12 (1986).
The author considers sequences of various types that minimize weighted path length of an elongated left-sided binary tree. He shows that such sequences may be expressed by Fibonacci sequence and he finds the corresponding weighted path length.
Reviewer: M.Frumkin

MSC:

68P10 Searching and sorting
68P05 Data structures
11B37 Recurrences
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