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Nathaniel
Nathaniel

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Why lowercase letters save data

Lowercase letters and uppercase letters use the same amout of data — 1 byte each.

So, it's surprising to learn that swapping uppercase letters for lowercase letters saves data.

How, you'll have to read my article on my website. I normally put them on dev.to, but this one has too many interactive elements.

Here's the article in full:

why lowercase letters save data

let me know what you think!

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Lev Nahar

Very interesting topic, and great interactive elements on your blog. I think you should port it even without the interactive bits here to Dev. Either way, great work!

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Mike Talbot ⭐

Shame this article isn't fully here. It's an interesting concept.

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Ziad Yahya

I always prefer to use lowercase because it's also save "time".

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Grigor Khachatryan

Nice article.

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Jon Randy 🎖️

Wow. An interesting post on dev.to... thank you! This kind of stuff is becoming increasingly rare on here. I also think you should put the full content up here