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In computing, techniques for reducing the
amount of storage needed for a given amount
of data. They include word tokenization
(where frequently used words are stored as
shorter codes), variable bit lengths (where
common characters are represented by fewer
bits than less common ones), and run-length
encoding (where a repeated value is stored
once along with a count).