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by matt-attack 2061 days ago
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.
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> Base64 is just like base10 but they needed 55 more characters beyond the 0-9

How did you work that out?