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Which lossless compression would compress images like this by a factor of ten or more? Isn't lossless image compression ratio more like around 2:1?

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It’s just a rough guess based on the redundancy in that image (limited range of colors, no hard edges). Lossless compression ratios can vary wildly depending on image contents.

What we are really getting at here is: where's the jpg!?

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