On 29 Jun 00, at 14:47, Sudhakar Chandra wrote:
> This got me thinking... What does 100% compression mean? Does it mean
> that the compressed file is 1/100th the size of the original file?
1/100th target file means that compression is 99%.
100% compression is when the compression algorithm has balked and the
target is o bytes;>
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