Show HN: I got tired of Base64, so I made a numeric-only alternative

4 points by Forgret ↗ HN
I created numbase is an alternative to Base64 that encodes data into a single large number instead of ASCII characters. It's useful if you want to store or transmit data in numeric form and easily apply compression algorithms like Huffman.

GitHub: https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/numbase

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Hmm - why would you do that? How much data, if any, can you safe by compressing it as to compared with the classic Base64?
I'm very curious as to how one gets tired of Base64?