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I'm a little confused...why did he use base 36 instead of base 26? Aren't there only 26 letters we need to convert to numbers?
by syoutsey 17y ago
I'm a little confused...why did he use base 36 instead of base 26? Aren't there only 26 letters we need to convert to numbers?
- nrr 17y agoConsider hex and base 64. Base 16 takes the first six letters from the alphabet to augment the number of available letters for representing a particular value. I guess using base 26 would make sense from a strictly alphabetic standpoint, but we've conventionally included the numbers 0-9 as part of the available letters for representation.
- muck 17y agoI guess they think words somehow include numbers
- scottjackson 17y agoFrom the looks of things, no leetspeak was included in the list, thankfully.
- cvg 17y agoThere are no numbers in English, but some real languages with latinized character sets have numbers in them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sḵwxwú7mesh_language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sḵwxwú7mesh_language
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- zzkt 17y agoby convention in base 36, numbers can be represented by [0-9] and [a-z]. 1(36)=1(10) a(36)=10(10) and z(36)=36(10).
- MaysonL 17y agoz(36) = 35(10), actually ;-)