Example: I have a book which I wanna archive. Would sending a zip with the pages take less storage than sending the, let’s say, 10 individual pages sparatedly?

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    19 hours ago

    The larger the file, the more patterns that can be compressed. Plus some of the dictionary overhead will be duplicated in multiple files.

    The single file should be, at most, no larger than the sum of smaller files. But potentially much smaller.