But .txt is not the same as .rs; yet .txt is not the same as .docx, although both of these files look the same to the human eye.

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Depends on the file format. There is compressed and uncompressed audio - some times the numbers just represent the audio waveform (e.g. .wav) - some times with lossy lossless compression. Most, but not all, video formats are compressed due to the data size

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