RosettaCodeData/Task/LZW-compression/00DESCRIPTION
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The Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) algorithm provides loss-less data compression.
You can read a complete description of it in the   [[wp:Lempel-Ziv-Welch|Wikipedia article]]   on the subject.   It was patented, but it entered the public domain in 2004.
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