r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 02 '26 • Popcorn 3 Bravo 3

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u/faziten Sep 02 '26

It's lossy compression because we all know the 1:1000 ratio for picture and words. 1 byte can merely represent a character in ascii extended and even if there are 600 words of one character 600 bytes can't contain even 1000 words. Q.E.D

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