One day while sick, I distracted myself from being sick by writing up a silly module to do arithmetic in arbitrary bases. And, because it was easy I stuck it on CPAN. https://metacpan.org/pod/Math::Fleximal is the module.
Of all of the silly things I'd done, I would have sworn that this is the one that should never generate a support request. But it did! Why? Well I'd included a demonstration of how to turn hexadecimal into an alphanumeric code. And someone had the bright idea of using the same thing to turn long numbers into readable codes!
My module worked, but I was still a bit flabbergasted that THIS wound up in production somewhere!!
One day while sick, I distracted myself from being sick by writing up a silly module to do arithmetic in arbitrary bases. And, because it was easy I stuck it on CPAN. https://metacpan.org/pod/Math::Fleximal is the module.
Of all of the silly things I'd done, I would have sworn that this is the one that should never generate a support request. But it did! Why? Well I'd included a demonstration of how to turn hexadecimal into an alphanumeric code. And someone had the bright idea of using the same thing to turn long numbers into readable codes!
My module worked, but I was still a bit flabbergasted that THIS wound up in production somewhere!!