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Data Compression - Coggle Diagram
Data Compression
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Why is Compression used
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Certain file types can be compressed without loosing quality so compressing them is an obvious choice
How Files are compressed
TXT
Files which are presented as lines of electronic text. These files are readable to the human eye but contain no formatting information and may often be used to store information which requires further processing by another application.
Some operating systems will place an EOF (End of file character) after the last line in the text file to denote the end of the txt file.
JPEG
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so this data needs only be saved once, rather than having to repeat the data and take up storage space unnecessarily.