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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There’s a lot of good comments here, but if you want a visual approach here is a super interesting article which covers compression.
https://pudding.cool/2017/05/song-repetition/
Note: The articles main point is to discuss repetition in music, but the compression part is just too cool to not mention.
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