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A number system can have any natural number as radix, so why not? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix From the posted a

by theoh 10y ago

A number system can have any natural number as radix, so why not? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix From the posted article: "This leaves us with 122 legal one-byte UTF-8 characters to use" Seems legit to me.

dom0 10y ago
> It's very easy to write a cache-timing-safe version of base{16,32,64} encoding ... > Base-122? Not sure if it's even possible. Parent is clearly referring to his previous statement, not that Base-122 itself is not possible.
- theoh 10y ago
  Not obvious to me at all.