June 2020
Intermediate to advanced
382 pages
11h 39m
English
Content preview from 40 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know
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Lossless compression algorithms
These are algorithms that are capable of compressing data in such a way that it can be decompressed without any loss of information. They are used when it is important to retrieve the exact original files after decompression. Typical uses of lossless compression algorithms are as follows:
To compress documents
To compress and package source code and executable files
To convert a large number of small files into a small number of large files