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A scientist is using a high-precision sensor to record atmospheric pressure every millisecond, with values stored as decimal numbers (e.g. 1013.211013.211013.21, 1013.221013.221013.22, 1013.201013.201013.20). The scientist decides to apply Run-Length Encoding (RLE) to the resulting log file to save disk space.

Explain why applying RLE to this high-precision sensor log file is generally ineffective and can actually increase the overall file size.

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