* approximately (with the algorithm used here) the minimum weighted path
* length from the root, given this constraint.
*
- * A canonical Huffman code satisfies the properties that a codeword
- * never lexicographically precedes a shorter codeword, and the
+ * A canonical Huffman code satisfies the properties that a longer
+ * codeword never lexicographically precedes a shorter codeword, and the
* lexicographic ordering of codewords of the same length is the same as
* the lexicographic ordering of the corresponding symbols. A canonical
* Huffman code, or more generally a canonical prefix code, can be