Lossless Compression
Lossless compression is the process of compressing data that does not require information to be discarded. In order to shrink the information, lossless compression utilizes a shorthand that represents redundancies in the data. Once the file is uncompressed, it will contain the exact same data as the original file. The downsize to lossless compression is that it can only reduce the file size by 50% since it does not discard any data. Lossless compression is better suited for sharing text files and storage, not audio and video compression.
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