Computer Science for IGCSE & O level - Data Representation (Section 4 - No. 25)
What are the common uses of Run-Length Encoding (RLE)?
Compressing text data with recurring characters.
Compressing black and white images with many of the same pixels.
Compressing high-resolution images.
Compressing audio files.
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RLE is well-suited to compressing data containing repeating runs.