Base 64
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Numeral systems by culture | |
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Hindu-Arabic numerals | |
Indian Eastern Arabic Khmer |
Indian family Brahmi Thai |
East Asian numerals | |
Chinese Suzhou Counting rods |
Japanese Korean |
Alphabetic numerals | |
Abjad Armenian Cyrillic Ge'ez |
Hebrew Greek (Ionian) Āryabhaṭa |
Other systems | |
Attic Babylonian Egyptian Etruscan |
Mayan Roman Urnfield |
List of numeral system topics | |
Positional systems by base | |
Decimal (10) | |
2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 | |
1, 3, 9, 12, 20, 24, 30, 36, 60, more… | |
This article is about the base 64 numerical system. For the base64 encoding, see Base64.
The base-64 system is a numeral system with 64 as its base. It is the largest power-of-two base that can be represented using single printable ASCII characters. This has led to its use as a transfer encoding for e-mail among other things. See Base64 for encoding schemes using base 64.