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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I’d just like to recommend you check out some videos on the Computerphile channel on YouTube. They have some nice ones about various kinds of compression:
https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile/search?query=compression
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