A text file experiences corruption; what happens to the average codeword length when Huffman coding is applied to the altered, more uniform character distribution?

💡 Explanation

The average codeword length decreases slightly because Huffman coding assigns shorter codes to more frequent symbols. A more uniform distribution implies less frequent symbols become slightly more frequent; therefore the average code length reduces, rather than remains unchanged.

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