What is a JPEG file?

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JPEG or otherwise known as joint photographic experts group is a file compression technique which nenables image file sizes to be reduced by as much as 96 percent with unnoticeable loss of detail.

It is a kind of graphic image. The file size is smaller than some other images, so it takes up less memory, which is one reason that it is a popular format.

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