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Why use base 36 and not base 26?
by norswap 2y ago
Why 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.