

I'd hit you with quadratic equations to show you how this works, but I don't hate you that much. If you have ever taken math and simplified longer equations into fewer steps, that's pretty similar to how file compression works. In order to zip files so they take up less space, you can compress them by taking repeating lines of code and condensing them into fewer lines of code.

You could view an entire app like Google Chrome as just lines of code if you really wanted to. Programs, apps, images, videos, and documents are all made up of lines of code. How is this possible, and why should you compress or zip files? How File Compression Works Zipped files, or compressed files, are files that have been optimized to take up less space on your computer. In what follows, I'll show you how to unzip files on all your favorite devices! What Is A Zipped File? However, figuring out how to open zipped files isn't always obvious. Compressed files are a great way to save storage space and reduce long download times for large files.
