Glossary · Computer science
Data compression
Encoding data in fewer bits. Lossless formats like ZIP keep every bit; lossy ones like JPEG drop detail people won’t notice.
In Icillion
You will meet data compression in 1 prompt of Icillion. Of the 28 answers they accept, only 20 reach The Deep or below.
Some examples
From the prompt “Name a compression format or algorithm”, the familiar end of the list:
- ZIP
- RAR
- Gzip
- 7z
- Bzip2
- XZ
- Zstandard
- LZMA
Prompts that use it
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