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If the goal is copy-pastable, why not base36 or base62?
by antifa 4y ago
If the goal is copy-pastable, why not base36 or base62?
- deepsun 4y agoBase32 is already implemented in most stdlibs, and I'm lazy to write it myself :)
- yencabulator 4y agoBecause typing them or reading them back over the phone is much less human-friendly. So far https://philzimmermann.com/docs/human-oriented-base-32-encoding.txt https://philzimmermann.com/docs/human-oriented-base-32-encod... has the best trade-offs I've ever seen. (Though for encoding numbers, where small numbers deserve a shorter representation, Base58 can be nice too.. z-base-32's alphabet is still more user-friendly. https://github.com/tv42/base58 https://github.com/tv42/base58 )