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...in decimal. https://t5k.org/notes/words.html https://t5k.org/notes/words.html points out that "When we work in base 36 all the letters are used - hence all
by lambertsimnel 2y ago
...in decimal.
https://t5k.org/notes/words.html https://t5k.org/notes/words.html points out that "When we work in base 36 all the letters are used - hence all words are numbers." Primes can be especially memorable in base 36. "Did," "nun," and "pop" are base-36 primes, as is "primetest" and many others.
- norswap 2y agoWhy use base 36 and not base 26?
- quuxplusone 2y agoOr base 27, so you have space/hyphen as well. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/convert https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/convert
- lambertsimnel 2y agoWe certainly could, but we already use 0-9 and then letters for hexadecimal. Using all 26 letters for base 36, but not base 26, is just an extension of that.