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		generalizations on July 8, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Do grayscale images take less space? Heh. Takes a scifi-level compression algorithm to make 32 bits comparable to 1 bit...or you'd need to get really lucky with your sparse matrix ;)

kbelder on July 8, 2024 [–]

But the other way around, it's all too common that a 1 bit array is stored equivalently to a 32 bit array.

generalizations on July 8, 2024 | [–]

Yes, indeed. If a larger data type is used to represent the information, it will most certainly take up more space.

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