absolutely right for Huffman codes do is that strong assumption that you have an alphabet of symbols and you build it encoding for a doubt alphabetical and you don't encode that specific symbols make sense thank you well compression usually be done in terms of bits like the encoding will be the output of the encoder will be like a lookup table and it won't you say yes the way we think of compression and the way it's ultimately done on computers is that only what comes out is the sequence of bits you can think of a single bit as