It's all shorthand. It's a perfectly sane mathematical trick. PNG uses the same approach. It
squeezes the data in an image file using tricks of math. Does the image have 61 pixels of nothing
but azure blue in one area? PNG stores that information as an instruction to make an azure blue
pixel 61 times. That takes up a lot less space than something like this: azure blue pixel, azure
blue pixel, azure blue pixel, ... you get the point.