How is it possible that a 10GB folder gets compressed into a 6GB exe or zip file?
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exe is not a compressed file, it is an executable file.
now for compression. imagine I had a file that was just 10 gigabytes of
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its pretty easy to see that
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Every following line in this file starts with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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y3ZhS8wg8z4
XEkOXvkuy0Q
Hrxf-mhwAAs
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has the same information, but is much mich smaller, more like 2gb
and thats how zipping works, it finds repeating patterns and replace then with smaller identifier and way to undo this replacement, just in a machine readable way instead of human readable
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