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Comment by kbenson

10 years ago

The DEFLATE[1] algorithm is actually fairly accessible, and will give a good idea of how compression works.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEFLATE

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hobo_mark  10 years ago

I liked this explanation of DEFLATE here on HN a few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12334270

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