If a lossless data compression scheme encodes a text file using Huffman coding based on Shannon's source coding theorem, which consequence follows?

💡 Explanation

Huffman coding constructs a prefix code with minimal expected length, approaching Shannon's entropy limit, because it assigns shorter codes to more frequent symbols; therefore, optimal average code length is achieved, rather than affecting channel capacity or bitstream collisions, which are separate concerns.

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