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AQXt on Sept 8, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Base32H, a human-friendly duotrigesimal n...

> And Crockford makes the better tradeoff by addressing I/1/l ambiguity instead of U/V.

Exactly!

It is much easier to mistake "l" for "1" (lowercase L for number 1) than "5" for "S" or "U" for "V".

sedatk on Sept 9, 2020 [–]

Crockford doesn't have U in its alphabet so it doesn't have U/V problem either. It just doesn't have aliasing for U because it's used for check digits.

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