Nick's Place: WebLog: Number Bases

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April 08, 2003

Number Bases

Number Bases Lesson - I've was playing around with a way to store numbers in a more compact but still ASCII format, and it just dawned on me! Base 62 (26 letters * 2 cases = 52 + 10 digits) was what I needed. I looked for functions around, but none of them are good. My function will be posted soon, (it was insanely easy to write) but for now here is the page I found to be the most help.

Posted by nickb at 08:57 AM

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