Comments on: Encoding Numbers as Base 36 http://devlog.info/2008/05/22/encoding-numbers-as-base-36/ One developers blog. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:08:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Alix Axel http://devlog.info/2008/05/22/encoding-numbers-as-base-36/comment-page-1/#comment-11338 Alix Axel Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:29:33 +0000 http://devlog.info/?p=34#comment-11338 Nice post, you made one mistake though: base 62 makes a distinction between upper and lower-case letters base 64 adds two more chars (not to confuse with base64_*). Regarding the ambiguous chars you can strip down those chars and use a smaller base (like base 52). Also, check out this related SO question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1938029/php-how-to-baseconvert-up-to-base-62 Nice post, you made one mistake though: base 62 makes a distinction between upper and lower-case letters base 64 adds two more chars (not to confuse with base64_*).

Regarding the ambiguous chars you can strip down those chars and use a smaller base (like base 52).

Also, check out this related SO question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1938029/php-how-to-baseconvert-up-to-base-62

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