The gzip documentation says:

The @command{gzip} format represents the input size modulo
@math{2^32}, so the uncompressed size and compression ratio are listed
incorrectly for uncompressed files 4 GiB and larger.  To work around
this problem, you can use the following command to discover a large
uncompressed file's true size:

@example
zcat file.gz | wc -c
@end example


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