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One reason might be that those characters would include letters. A digits-only code is much easier to type, e.g. using a restricted keypad, such as a phone.
by TimWolla 5y ago
One reason might be that those characters would include letters. A digits-only code is much easier to type, e.g. using a restricted keypad, such as a phone.
- tshaddox 5y agoDon't all hashes start out as numbers anyway, before they get encoded as alphanumeric strings?