Computer Science for IGCSE & O level - Data Representation (Section 5 - No. 16)
What is a characteristic of a lossy compression algorithm?
It always maintains all original data.
It is best suited for text files.
It reduces file size by discarding data.
It guarantees perfect reconstruction of the data.
स्पष्टीकरण
Lossy algorithms often use approximations and remove some details of the data.