oh. I get it now. Thanks
On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 3:41 PM Peter J. Holzer <hjp-pg...@hjp.at> wrote: > On 2020-10-10 11:31:23 +0200, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > > On 2020-10-07 20:10:34 +0530, Hemil Ruparel wrote: > > > Sorry if this is silly but if it is a 128 bit number, why do we need 32 > > > characters to represent it? Isn't 8 bits one byte? > > > > Yes, 8 bits are 1 byte. But that's 256 different values, so to display > > them in 1 character you would need 256 different characters. That's not > > possible in ASCII (ASCII has only 94 graphic characters), and even if > > you included accented characters and other alphabets (like Greek or > > Cyrillic) it would be hard to read. > > I'm showing my European bias here. > > I should have thought of Korean. The Hangul script is syllabic with a > very straightforward and easy to learn structure. Wikipedia tells me > that they have 19 consonants and 21 vowels, so you could just pick 16 > consonants and 16 vowels to construct 256 syllables. That would even > make UUIDs pronounceable. > > hp > > -- > _ | Peter J. Holzer | Story must make more sense than reality. > |_|_) | | > | | | h...@hjp.at | -- Charles Stross, "Creative writing > __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | challenge!" >
