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The point is to make a long number more human-friendly. But I don't get why these are non-sequential then.
by hot_gril 3y ago
The point is to make a long number more human-friendly. But I don't get why these are non-sequential then.
- s4i 3y agoUnless we are talking about very long numbers, surely the numbers are easier for people to deal with, say over the phone, etc?
- hot_gril 3y agoI was going to say it's for very long numbers, but I tried an example, and 123645634 becomes ARsz1pHw789c7ESzhy. The output is actually longer, and more complicated. Looks like it uses a hash. I was expecting it to just convert the base except with something to skip profanity, which would give you something much shorter going base 10 to base ~36. Tbh I don't see why it's like this.