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Compression reduces the number of bits needed to represent information by exploiting redundancy or limited perceptual importance.
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Compression assigns shorter representations to predictable patterns or removes information judged less important.
supported03
Compressed size can be measured directly and exact lossless decompression verified byte-for-byte.