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Which is irrelevant, since languages are a medium of human expression, not a way to store bits on the disk.


Irrelevant to what? The two words literally are represented with different bits (code).


Assuming you are not trolling: yes they are indeed represented with different bits, which doesn't matter since these bits are not the bits executed by the CPU in the end. The "words" and not the bits are interpreted or compiled into machine code. Which is where bits matter.




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