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Re:Base-122 – A space efficient alternative to base-64 by feadog on Sunday November 27, 2016 @08:26PM (#13052791)
base 85 also has the interesting property that 4 original bytes fit in 5 encoded bytes.

Still useful for Javascript, as the bit shift operators work on 32 bit "registers".

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