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Operation Mega-Compression
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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 997304" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>All digital data is comprised of basic elements (think binary, ones and zeros). When you run compression on it, you're basically applying an algorithm (a mathematical process) which finds synergies in the file and express the file in a different form. Then, when you uncompress the file, that same algorithm is essentially run in reverse to put the file back as it was. It's roughly analogous to using exponents to express a big number with a minimal amount of writing.</p><p></p><p>So, if you compress a compressed file, you're doing nothing as all of the efficiencies have already been exploited.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 997304, member: 24098"] All digital data is comprised of basic elements (think binary, ones and zeros). When you run compression on it, you're basically applying an algorithm (a mathematical process) which finds synergies in the file and express the file in a different form. Then, when you uncompress the file, that same algorithm is essentially run in reverse to put the file back as it was. It's roughly analogous to using exponents to express a big number with a minimal amount of writing. So, if you compress a compressed file, you're doing nothing as all of the efficiencies have already been exploited. [/QUOTE]
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