[Python-Dev] Base-96 (original) (raw)

Kless jonas.esp at googlemail.com
Sat Aug 2 09:57:50 CEST 2008

It's true, I didn't pay attention to that.

So the next encoding possible would of base-128 (7-bits encoding), althought I don't know if were possible since that there would than use non-printable characters and could change the text (by use of chars. as Backspace or Delete).

On 2 ago, 03:21, Steve Holden <st... at holdenweb.com> wrote:

96 is approximately 2^6.585

For some reason, integral powers of two seem so much more, well, POWERFUL, if you know what I mean. Frankly I think you are being either optimistic or charitable in suggesting that such a use case might exist. There's a reason that DEC called their equivalent of base64 "6-bit encoding". But then I wanted to keep integer division as it was, so I am clearly a techno-luddite. If the world wants fractional bits I'm sure it's only a matter of time before some genius decides to design a 67.9-bit computer.

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