Name:
Anonymous
2010-12-20 12:18
Could someone explain to me the basics of how data compression works?
Name:
Anonymous
2010-12-20 12:37
Find common/repetitive pattern, encode data in ways which describe these reptitive patterns using less bytes (simple example: 'aaaaaaaab' -> (x a 8) b
Name:
Anonymous
2010-12-20 12:40
>>4
That's the most obvious method that I could come up with myself. Does that happen often enough in real life?