You can think about the compressed size of some file as approximating the amount of information (in the Shannon sense[1]) there is in the file. A perfect compr

You can think about the compressed size of some file as approximating the amount of information (in the Shannon sense[1]) there is in the file. A perfect compression would reduce the file to exactly the size of the amount of information it contains. [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.09316 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.09316