Base 64
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| Numeral systems by culture | |
|---|---|
| Hindu-Arabic numerals | |
| Western Arabic Eastern Arabic Khmer | Indian family Brahmi Thai |
| East Asian numerals | |
| Chinese Counting rods | Japanese Korean |
| Alphabetic numerals | |
| Abjad Armenian Cyrillic Ge'ez | Hebrew Ionian/Greek Āryabhaṭa |
| Other systems | |
| Attic Babylonian Egyptian Etruscan | Mayan Roman Urnfield |
| List of numeral system topics | |
| Positional systems by base | |
| Decimal (10) | |
| 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 | |
| 3, 9, 12, 24, 30, 36, 60, more… | |
This article is about the base 64 numerical system. For the base64 encoding, 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. See Base64 for encoding schemes using base 64.
