Is there a technical term for the process of dicing 8-bit values into 6-bit values, a la Base64? Are there libraries?
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@qntm encoding
@rereferer But you could just as easily dice 15-bit values into 4-bit values. Does this kind of operation have a name?
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@qntm i would guess the general term is encoding, regardless of base, but really i was just being snarkyThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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