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LZW - Webopeidia reference page

Published in Papers/Documentation, LZ78/LZW and derivatives

Short for Lempel-Zif-Welsh, a popular data compression technique developed in 1977 by J. Ziv and A Lempel, and later refined by T. Welsh. It is the compression algorithm used in the GIF graphics file format, which is one of the standard graphic formats used by CompuServe and the World Wide Web.

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