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lambertsimnel01/21/20251 replyview on HN

...in decimal.

https://t5k.org/notes/words.html points out that "When we work in base 36 all the letters are used - hence all words are numbers." Primes can be especially memorable in base 36. "Did," "nun," and "pop" are base-36 primes, as is "primetest" and many others.


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norswap01/21/2025

Why use base 36 and not base 26?

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