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Melchoire

To all programmers or anyone with the proper know-how: this is probably a stupid question but why can't you compress data repeatedly and reduce it's size over and over?
Jan 27 2011 08:51 AM
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    Waser Lave
    Because it still needs to be able to represent the full data when you uncompress it. So for example if you have a 1mb data file you couldn't possibly represent all that data in 1 byte so there is a lower limit.
    Jan 27 2011 09:03 AM
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    Melchoire
    i'm reading up on it right now. data compression is definitely not what i thought it was :p
    Jan 27 2011 09:26 AM
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