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| Thread ID: 138607 | 2014-12-24 20:07:00 | How can you get more characters than there are Bytes? | lostsoul62 (16011) | Press F1 |
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| 1390845 | 2014-12-24 20:07:00 | I have an excel 2010 file with 6 tabs. One tab has 195,000 words (It has more because I didn't count the 6,000+ dates) and the other 5 tabs have about 50,000 words which is a total of "Let say 250,000 words" which comes out to about 1,250,000 characters or Bytes (5 Characters per word is the norm) and it only takes up 822K of space. Would someone explain how that is possible? | lostsoul62 (16011) | ||
| 1390846 | 2014-12-24 22:17:00 | No Idea really but you're assuming Excel stores it's data in uncompressed ascii form which given your numbers seems unlikely. I doubt many people care enough about the structure of an excel file to answer your question other than just because that's how MS designed it. Ascii is pretty inefficient and word and excel files compress really well when you zip them. You end up with something much smaller again and it still contains all those characters. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1390847 | 2014-12-24 22:17:00 | compression | nmercer (3899) | ||
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