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by dbaupp 814 days ago
Good point! I've added an analysis of this and other bases to https://huonw.github.io/blog/2024/03/qr-base10-base64/#fn:ot...
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Doh! I don't know why I went with per-byte encoding for octal. Yeah, you can do 11.1% overhead with base8, not much worse than base32, surprisingly.