Base 64 - The Encyclopedia

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Numeral systems by culture
Hindu-Arabic numerals
Western Arabic Eastern Arabic Khmer	Indian family Brahmi Thai
East Asian numerals
Chinese Suzhou Counting rods	Japanese Korean Mongolian
Alphabetic numerals
Abjad Armenian Cyrillic Ge'ez	Hebrew Greek (Ionian) Āryabhaṭa
Other systems
Attic Babylonian Egyptian English	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…
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This article is about a positional numerical system. For the content encoding scheme, 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.

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