Computer Science for IGCSE & O level - Data Representation (Section 4 - No. 18)
What are the common uses for RLE compression?
Compressing binary images (e.g., black and white images).
Images that have large solid color areas.
Compressing audio files.
Compressing files that have repeating characters.
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RLE is very efficient at compressing data that contain many repeating sequences.