Compression
This comprehensive online guide, provides a background to compression. Compression is a technique that reduces file size. This topic has information about lossy and lossless.
Additional details
| Year band(s) | 9-10 |
|---|---|
| Content type | Professional learning, Article or research |
| Format | Web page |
| Core and overarching concepts | Data representation |
| Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s) |
AC9TDI10K03
Investigate simple data compression techniques |
| Keywords | loss of data, no data loss |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge and Raspberry Pi Foundation |
| Copyright | © University of Cambridge and Raspberry Pi Foundation. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. |
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