canpolat@programming.dev to Programming@programming.dev • 5 months agoWhy lowercase letters save dataexternal-linkmessage-square3 fedilinkarrow-up122cross-posted to: typography@lemmy.ml
arrow-up122external-linkWhy lowercase letters save datacanpolat@programming.dev to Programming@programming.dev • 5 months agomessage-square3 Commentsfedilinkcross-posted to: typography@lemmy.ml
minus-squaresus@programming.devhexbear27·5 months agoTo save even more data, replace every symbol with A. Then just store the amount of As. linkfedilink
minus-squarealtec@midwest.socialhexbear4·5 months agoThen we could make a language where the letters are equivalent to the number of As linkfedilink
minus-squareDeebster@programming.devhexbear5·5 months agoTo 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. linkfedilink
To save even more data, replace every symbol with A. Then just store the amount of As.
Then we could make a language where the letters are equivalent to the number of As
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.