Compression

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In Information Technology (IT) , data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation1.

Types of compression

There are two types of compression:

  1. Lossless - reduces bits by identifying and eliminating statistical redundancy
  2. Lossy - reduces bits by removing unnecessary or less important information

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References

  1. Wikipedia. “compression”. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_compression#:~:text=Most%20forms%20of%20lossy%20compression,compression%20can%20cause%20generation%20loss .. (Accessed: [2025-05-13 Tue 15:33]). ↩︎

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