The FBI has been collecting fingerprint cards since 1924. Their collection has grown to over 200 million cards.
When digitized, each fingerprint card turns into about 10 MB of data (A megabyte [MB] is 220~ one million
bytes).
a. How many bytes of storage will they need?
They will need
*bytes.
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b. A compression routine called the WSQ method will compress the bytes by ration 12.9 to 1. Approximately
how many bytes of storage will the FBI need for the compressed data?
They will need
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