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minus-squareniartenyaw@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agowhat about numbers larger than 16?
minus-squareyetAnotherUser@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoWe’ve got base 64, though it doesn’t quite follow the convention of starting with digits and following up with letters: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64
minus-squareniartenyaw@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 year agowhat about numbers after 64? comment OP and i were trying to come up with a universal rule which we did in his response to my first comment
minus-squareharmsy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoThere are still 20 more letters that can be used as stand-ins. Things will get interesting if you try to go past Base 36, though.
minus-squareniartenyaw@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agothis is exactly what i was trying to get at
minus-squareharmsy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoOr use ancient scripts like Phoenician or Glagolitic.
what about numbers larger than 16?
We’ve got base 64, though it doesn’t quite follow the convention of starting with digits and following up with letters:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64
Base /+1 lol
what about numbers after 64? comment OP and i were trying to come up with a universal rule which we did in his response to my first comment
There are still 20 more letters that can be used as stand-ins. Things will get interesting if you try to go past Base 36, though.
this is exactly what i was trying to get at
Make up a new symbol?
Or use ancient scripts like Phoenician or Glagolitic.