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A 1.1.8 Compression

Every photo you send, every song you stream and every web page you load has almost certainly been compressed. Compression reduces the size of a file by representing the same information in fewer bits, which saves storage space and cuts transmission time. The syllabus asks you to describe the concept, to distinguish lossy methods from lossless methods, and to know two specific techniques: run-length encoding and...

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