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Compress

Compress[expr]
gives a compressed representation of expr as a string.
  • Compress[expr] gives a compressed representation of any expression.
  • The string generated by Compress contains only printable ASCII characters.
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Basic Examples   (3)
A compressed representation of pi with 100-digit precision:
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Import an image:
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Number of bytes used to store the image:
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Number of bytes of a compressed representation of the image:
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Compress a general expression:
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In this case there is almost a factor of 50 compression:
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