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Donald Ian Rankin

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19. How many bits of information does it take to store it?

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Sat Jan 9, 2016, 04:38 PM

Jan 2016

And are they using lossless compression, or are the bits they're not zooming in on artifacted?

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