Twenty Questions Games Always End With Yes
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چکیده
Huffman coding is often presented as the optimal solution to Twenty Questions. However, a caveat is that Twenty Questions games always end with a reply of “Yes,” whereas Huffman codewords need not obey this constraint. We bring resolution to this issue, and prove that the average number of questions still lies between H(X) and H(X) + 1.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1002.4907 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009