Base 64
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This article is about a positional numerical system. For the content encoding scheme, 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 in the Base64 binary-to-text encoding scheme for e-mail among other things.
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