Data Compression (Part 2)

I would suggest you to give a quick read to the part 1 of this article -

Data Compression (Part 1)

So what does compression of text mean ?

We all must have compressed our game files to store it in hard drives. We compress them so as to store as many games as we can.

There are numerous advantages of compressing a file, it reduces the cost to company for storage, it increases transfer speed of files online, etc.

It basically means converting our text to a shorter format than our original text.

So now, what we all have been waiting for i.e How do we actually compress data ?

There can be various ways to compress any data.

Lets understand a basic compression

As we have already discussed, we use 8-bit binary to represent any character of our text.

Like for our text “hasbullah”, we had a binary format like — “011010000110000101110011011000100111010101101100011011000110000101101000”