What are compressed and uncompressed files, how does it all work and why compressed files take less storage?
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Also to add.. there is lossless and lossy compression where lossy compression looks to remove data that is considered low informational content.
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In a similar way, lossy compression can remove/ replace content with minimal change to structure of the data
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