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by planck 6246 days ago
This is also known as the ZIP compression algorithm.
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webignition 6246 days ago
But then you might end up not being able to see the forest of data for all the Huffman trees.
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gaius 6246 days ago
It's called "deduplication" in databaseland, it's common strategy for tape backups.
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