Title basically says it all. I understand how photos and videos can trade quality for file size, but files like games or large folders can be shrunk into a .rar or .zip file, transferred, and pulled back out with no loss to functionality. How does that work? If nothing’s being taken away how is space being saved?
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Tom Scott did a very clear video on how text is compressed using “Hofmann Trees”. This works for single characters, however win zip doesn’t use single characters but bigger chunks
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