What are compressed and uncompressed files, how does it all work and why compressed files take less storage?
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Just a fun example of compression.
I used the zen of python. For simplicity, I removed all punctuation and made it lower case.
I’m sure there are better ways to compress this as well.
Original: 807 bytes
>beautiful is better than ugly
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>explicit is better than implicit
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>simple is better than complex
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>complex is better than complicated
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>flat is better than nested
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>sparse is better than dense
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>readability counts
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>special cases arent special enough to break the rules
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>although practicality beats purity
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>errors should never pass silently
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>unless explicitly silenced
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>in the face of ambiguity refuse the temptation to guess
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>there should be one and preferably only one obvious way to do it
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>although that way may not be obvious at first unless youre dutch
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>now is better than never
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>although never is often better than right now
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>if the implementation is hard to explain its a bad idea
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>if the implementation is easy to explain it may be a good idea
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>namespaces are one honking great idea lets do more of those
Compressed generated with some code: 709 bytes
>[~=is;!=better;@=than;#=the;$=although;%=never;^=idea;&=complex;*=special;(=should;)=unless;{=obvious;}=it;|=implementation;=explain]
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>beautiful ~ ! @ ugly
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>explic} ~ ! @ implic}
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>simple ~ ! @ &
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>& ~ ! @ complicated
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>flat ~ ! @ nested
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>sparse ~ ! @ dense
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>readabil}y counts
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>* cases arent * enough to break # rules
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>$ practical}y beats pur}y
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>errors ( % pass silently
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>) explic}ly silenced
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>in # face of ambigu}y refuse # temptation to guess
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>#re ( be one and preferably only one { way to do }
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>$ that way may not be { at first ) youre dutch
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>now ~ ! @ %
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>$ % ~ often ! @ right now
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>if # | ~ hard to }s a bad ^
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>if # | ~ easy to } may be a good ^
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>namespaces are one honking great ^ lets do more of those
Compressed after manual modification: 673 bytes
>[~=is;!=better;@=than;#=the;$=although;%=never;^=idea;&=complex;*=special;(=should;)=unless;{=obvious;}=it;|=implementation;=explain;:= ~ ! @ ;’= # | ~ ;<= to }]
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>beautiful:ugly
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>explic}:implic}
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>simple:&
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>&:complicated
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>flat:nested
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>sparse:dense
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>readabil}y counts
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>* cases arent * enough to break # rules
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>$ practical}y beats pur}y
>
>errors ( % pass silently
>
>) explic}ly silenced
>
>in # face of ambigu}y refuse # temptation to guess
>
>#re ( be one and preferably only one { way to do }
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>$ that way may not be { at first ) youre dutch
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>now:%
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>$ % ~ often ! @ right now
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>if’hard<s a bad ^
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>if’easy< may be a good ^
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>namespaces are one honking great ^ lets do more of those
Edit: Dang reddit messed up my formatting. Should be fixed now
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