How does file compression work?

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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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If your letter to your friend list out 1000 letter a, you shrink your paper by writing 1000 x a. Instead of a 10×10 paper, you just need to send a 1×1 paper

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