Data Compression
Submitted by on January 1, 1998
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subject = Information Theory
title = Data Compression
papers = Data Compression-
in
beginners’ terms
‘Data Compression’ just sounds complicated. Don’t be
afraid, compression is our good friend for many reasons. It saves hard drive
space. It makes data files to handle. It also cuts those immense file download
times from the Internet. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could compress all files
down to just a few bytes?
There is a limit to how much you can compress
a file. How random the file is, is the determining factor to how far it can
be compressed. If the file is completely random and no pattern can be found,
then the shortest representation of the file is the file it self. The actual
proof that proves this is at the end of my paper. The key to...