Example: I have a book which I wanna archive. Would sending a zip with the pages take less storage than sending the, let’s say, 10 individual pages sparatedly?

  • BenLeMan@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Almost correct, except that the patterns it works with are on the byte level. Not all files contain text, after all.