A survey is carried out to look at the types of vehicle that travel down a stretch of motorway. For each vehicle that passes by, a letter is entered into the system. For a car ‘C’ is entered. For a motorbike ‘M’ is entered. For a lorry ‘L’ is entered. For any other vehicle ‘O’ …
A charitable organisation is trying to make the works of William Shakespeare available to more people. The organisation decides to make a copy of Shakespeare’s entire works available as a downloadable text file from its website. It further decides to compress the file before making it available to download. Which form of compression would be …
A programmer spends her spare time contributing to an open source application that converts video files from a range of formats to one which uses lossy compression. Describe what is meant by the term ‘lossy compression’.
