We use compressed data every day, whether it be music files (MP3), images (JPEG), video (MPEG-4) or mass-archive storage (ZIP). It is fascinating to watch a large amount of disk space get scrunched into a handy, tiny file. But how does this process of squeezing work?
In this three-part article, we will take you through some of the basics of data compression.
Part 1: Information
What makes our data susceptible to compression? Why cant data be compressed indefinitely?
Part 2: D […]
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