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Re: Base 2048

#41
For those playing at home, you need at least base 4096 to equal the data density of base64, because utf8 uses two bytes for anything over 7 bits. It is only because of a somewhat arbitrary Twitter rule that this works. On Twitter.

Re: Base 2048

#42
post #3

For comparison: A sha512 hash in hex: 309ecc489c12d6eb4cc40f50c902f2b4d0ed77ee511a7c7a9bcd3ca86d4cd86f989dd35bc5ff499670da34255b45b0cfd830e81f605dcf7dc5542e93ae9cd76f Same in this Base2048: ЗཟǷњϳݫЬߦՏԈ௰ڿƫ௪தͶޡഺཀވࡌੳٿ༲৩ত༥၄ঙџڸࠑحϷгଘƩƴߢய߅ϚƐγ๓ۑఞ The encoding also seems to be HN-safe, using no emojis or other things HN filters. The font used here is lacking some of the characters, but that shouldn't matter if you just copy-pa…

  Base2048: ЗཟǷњϳݫЬߦՏԈ௰ڿƫ௪தͶޡഺཀވࡌੳٿ༲৩ত༥၄ঙџڸࠑحϷгଘƩƴߢய߅ϚƐγ๓ۑఞ (47 characters, 113 bytes)
  Base64:   MJ7MSJwS1utMxA9QyQLytNDtd+5RGnx6m808qG1M2G+YndNbxf9JlnDaNCVbRbDP2DDoH2Bdz33FVC6TrpzXbw== (88 bytes)
  Base58:   yP4cqy7jmaRDzC2bmcGNZkuQb3VdftMk6YH7ynQ2Qw4zktKsyA9fk52xghNQNAdkpF9iFmFkKh2bNVG4kDWhsok (87 bytes)
  Original:  64 bytes, 128 bytes in hex.
I'd prefer base58. Maybe compress it first.
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