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Originally Posted by AlexBell
I'm sorry, I don't quite understand. What factors would make a file more or less compressible?
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The contents. In an extreme case, a file that's just 1MB of "AAAAA..." will compress very efficiently, a file with the first 1024 digits of pi a bit less. But both, being basically ASCII text will be more compressible than a 1MB JPG, which is already compressed.