That was an example, intended for humans. It is much quicker to say "10 tosses, all heads", than it is to say "HHHHHHHHHH". A computer example might explain th

That was an example, intended for humans. It is much quicker to say "10 tosses, all heads", than it is to say "HHHHHHHHHH". A computer example might explain that it takes less storage to store "10H" (i.e. the integer 10 followed by the character H), than it is to store 10 H characters in a sequence.