Definition: Data can frequently be compressed by removing redundant sections (such as silences in music) or converting repeating sequences like ffffff into 6f, which reduces that text to 33% of its original size.
There are two types of compression:
- Lossless - where the compressed data can be uncompressed to return an identical copy of the original.
- Lossy - where some quality is lost to achieve greater compression but the loss is not noticeable.
Glossary:
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Data compression can be useful for bundling several files into one archive- making it easier to copy or email.
