[docs] [issue27846] Base64 expansion factor is 4 to 3, not 6 to 4

R. David Murray report at bugs.python.org
Wed Aug 24 08:46:48 EDT 2016


R. David Murray added the comment:

Maybe we should just drop that note.  To achieve any sort of clarity we'd have to say that base85 is 15 for 12 and base64 is 16 for 12.  And putting it that way it doesn't seem like all that much of an advantage :)

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