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Re:All 16,777,216 RGB colours (2005) by thaumasiotes on Saturday September 25, 2021 @06:44PM (#28656815)
> The answer is that it MUST necessarily be so. You can't have a one-to-one map from [2]^N to [2]^K where K < N.

Except that you've already noted that JPG is a lossy compression scheme, so it doesn't matter that a one-to-one map isn't possible.

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