through solving another example and especially under many of the applications that are used on the internet Huffman codes are used to compress their data all right so maybe let me pause here for a moment to see if there's any questions so have you any questions feel free to type them into the chat window or to just speak up or raise your hand oh hi drew yeah I had a question so I guess something that I noticed about Hoffman codes and stuff would be that you're kind of the number of symbols or number of values that you have is fixed