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Suppose we are compressing a stream of 16 bit symbols that are 90 percent zero...

We'll use a single '0' to represent a whole symbols of zeros.

We'll use a single '1' followed by the sixteen digits to represent non-zero values.

Compression factor: (0.9 * 1 + 0.1 * 17) / 16 = 16.25 percent.