19. Boring Pixels!/Using numbers
Required material: squared notebook, or 5 × 5 chequered board drawn on a piece of paper, felt-tip pen. To represent the code of the drawing you can use a pen and paper.
Questions
Try to make a chequered design and represent it with RLE encoding. The size of the design is equal to the number of squares, but what is the size of its RLE representation?
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