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Question 23

A high-speed networking card monitors a fiber-optic link and records the light intensity state at microsecond intervals, yielding the following sequence of values:

H L H L H L H L H L H L

(Where H = High intensity, L = Low intensity)

Explain why Run-Length Encoding (RLE) is an unsuitable compression technique for this telemetry data.

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Data compression Questions

  1. GCSE
  2. /Computer Science
  3. /Data compression

37 exam-style questions on AQA GCSE Computer Science Data compression. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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