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Why lowercase letters save data (endtimes.dev)

submitted 10 months ago by canpolat@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] sus@programming.dev 56 points 10 months ago (3 children)

To save even more data, replace every symbol with A. Then just store the amount of As.

[–] altec@midwest.social 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Then we could make a language where the letters are equivalent to the number of As

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 13 points 10 months ago

To save sending the tree every time, we could just have a fixed layout of letters and symbols. This would have the advantage that we could put them in order, which would be easier to work with.

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