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- Both Base85 and Ascii85 have an expansion factor of 5 to 4 (5 Base85 or |
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- Ascii85 characters can encode 4 binary bytes), while the better-known |
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- Base64 has an expansion factor of 6 to 4. They are therefore more |
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- efficient when space expensive. They differ by details such as the |
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- character map used for encoding. |
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The legacy interface: |
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.. function:: decode(input, output) |