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minus-squareAlien Surfer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-21 year agoBecause at some point the difficulty increases with regard to the number of symbols to memorize. A balance exists. I surmise it’s either 12 or 16.
minus-squarejarfil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year ago16 is not hard, we use it for hexadecimal all the time. Could as easily use base 32, if it’s a matter of memorizing symbols. Base 30 would be better overall: divisible by 1, 2, 3, 5, and everyone reading this knows more than 30 basic symbols (0-9,a-z).
Because at some point the difficulty increases with regard to the number of symbols to memorize. A balance exists. I surmise it’s either 12 or 16.
16 is not hard, we use it for hexadecimal all the time. Could as easily use base 32, if it’s a matter of memorizing symbols.
Base 30 would be better overall: divisible by 1, 2, 3, 5, and everyone reading this knows more than 30 basic symbols (0-9,a-z).