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Other radix #14

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ghost opened this issue Jul 11, 2019 · 4 comments
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Other radix #14

ghost opened this issue Jul 11, 2019 · 4 comments
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ghost commented Jul 11, 2019

POSIX C also offers Radix 64

although a different implementation might be better, as

l64a accepts big-endian integers but outputs little-endian strings.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/l64a.html

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Any use case for using that ? never heard of it.

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ghost commented Jul 12, 2019

I can be useful for encoding larger numbers

for example, YouTube uses it with its video IDs

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Interesting, where would you find it useful in bitwise, in the command line ?

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ghost commented Jul 12, 2019

for informational purposes, it could be useful to see a number represent in decimal, binary, hex, and radix-64. to compare and make decisions based on the output

@mellowcandle mellowcandle added enhancement New feature or request good first issue Good for newcomers labels Jul 12, 2019
@mellowcandle mellowcandle added this to the v0.4 milestone Jul 12, 2019
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