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Storage efficiency of VARCHARs

I am curious about the internal representation of VARCHARS. I cannot
find any documentation on it in the mySQL manual. Will a VARCHAR(10)
take up less space then a VARCHAR(80), even though they are variable?

Thanks in advance,

Dan
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