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Interesting, I did different choices:

5-bit base-32 oi23456789 abcdefghkl mnpqrstuvw y

o = 0 i = 1 j, x and z removed.

I like that you can fit 6 characters in an 32-bit integer and still have to bits to spare... makes for compact usernames and network bandwidth.




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