Everyday Examples
The use of acronyms in texting is an everyday example. The number of bits required to transmit and store "WYSIWYG" is reduced from its expanded equivalent (7 characters vs 28). The representation of Mersenne primes is another example. The largest as of April 2010 is over 12 million digits long but it is represented as M43112609 or Mp in a much more compacted form.
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