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I made a zip file . but the size of the zipfile gets more than the original file. original file-size was 206 kb whereas after making zip, the size is now 1076 kb . what is the reason ?
how the file size is geting increased after zip , where it was supposed to less ?
What type of files are you compressing? Binary or text?
In general binary files are not too compressible and so the zip file might be bigger then the source due to the compressing process.
Let say I want to compress this :
11111999222222 (14 caracters long)
I will use this algorithm : each number x is repeated y times. I will represent a sequence of numbers as yx.
It gives :
513962 (6 caracters long)
(5 times 1, 3 times 9 and 6 times 2).
I have compressed the string from 14 caracters to 6 (less than 50%).
Now let say I want to compress this string with the same algorithm :
513962 (6 caracters long)
it gives :
151113191612 (12 caracters long).
The same algorithms didn't compress but expanded the string in this case.
the zip algorithm compresses more or less most of the time but in some cases, it doesn't work (like for instance if you compress a zip file, you actually increase its size).
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