Why Compress

• Conserve storage space

• Reduce time for transmission

  • Faster to encode, send, then decode than to send the original

• Progressive transmission

  • Some compression techniques allow us to send the most important bits first so we can get a low resolution version of some data before getting the high fidelity version

• Reduce computation

  • Use less data to achieve an approximate answer

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