What are compressed and uncompressed files, how does it all work and why compressed files take less storage?
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If you are interested in a more in depth answer and a better answer than I could give I would strongly suggest the Great Courses lecture series The Science of Information: From Language to Black Holes by Benjamin Schumacher.
Compression is covered in chapter/lecture 5 but the whole course is excellent. It covers some very technical topics while remaining very approachable.
It is available as an audio book as well as a video serries.
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