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I must say I never dove into the internals of base64 encoding, but this does indeed make a lot of sense :)

Thanks!

Base64 is just like base10 but they needed 55 more characters beyond the 0-9. So someone decided to use letters (both lower case and upper case) and a few symbols.

> Base64 is just like base10 but they needed 55 more characters beyond the 0-9

How did you work that out?

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