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Base36 is a binary-to-text encoding scheme that represents binary data in an ASCII string format by translating it into a radix-36 representation. The choice of 36 is convenient in that the digits can be represented using the Arabic numerals 0–9 and the Latin letters A–Z[1] (the ISO basic Latin alphabet).
Each base36 digit needs less than 6 bits of information to be represented.