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Why lowercase letters save data
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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.