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I discovered that if you limit yourself to a-z and 1-6 you can put 6 letter usernames into an 32-bit integer with 2 bits to spare. And that gives you 1 billion
by bullen 5y ago
I discovered that if you limit yourself to a-z and 1-6 you can put 6 letter usernames into an 32-bit integer with 2 bits to spare.
And that gives you 1 billion combinations, sure most of them are garbage but still.
http://fuse.rupy.se http://fuse.rupy.se uses it to test it...
- bullen 5y agoI call this base-32 and it uses 5-bit. I'm considering using it for my distriuted DNS 2.0... 6-bit would only give you 5 character names but with 0-9 and A-Z if you wished (although that is really confusing for names...)