Computer Science for IGCSE & O level - Data Representation (Section 11 - No. 30)
Which of the following best describes the purpose of Run Length Encoding (RLE)?
To encrypt image data.
To encode information for multimedia files.
To reduce the size of data by replacing repeating characters.
To change the resolution of images.
Uitleg
The goal is to minimize the file size by using a repeating character to create a sequence of data.