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by mygoodaccount 1880 days ago
It's lossless too (with the context)!
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Well quite to opposite it’s a pretty good example of lossy compression.

Lossless compression has to be lossless outside of any context or interpretation, it’s mathematically reversible.

This is rather a good analogy of a compression akin to say MP3.