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23 Post author: p4wnc6 23 April 2012 11:17PM

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Comment author: gjm 24 April 2012 03:55:15PM 0 points [-]

That's ... impressive. p4wnc6, did you do that on purpose or was it just a staggeringly appropriate coincidence?

Comment author: p4wnc6 24 April 2012 07:43:58PM 1 point [-]

I didn't do anything intentional. I didn't know that posts could have IDs like this. I assumed it was something that Vladimir_Nesov arranged, but was unsure.

Comment author: thomblake 24 April 2012 08:55:19PM 3 points [-]

Every post has an ID in a peculiar encoding of alphanumeric characters (I think it's just base 36). Pure coincidence.

Comment author: Vulture 24 April 2012 11:09:33PM -1 points [-]

*Base 37, I think you mean

Comment author: handoflixue 24 April 2012 11:18:23PM 2 points [-]

What's the 37th character?

Comment author: Vulture 25 April 2012 01:53:18AM *  2 points [-]

I now realize that it is in fact base 36. Sorry about that, I was responding on autopilot by some muddied rule in my head which said "Non-decimal base -> Add 1", probably a result of remembering that base 10, for instance, only has digits up to 9. What I failed to realize, naturally, was that this included 0, coming out to ten symbols.

Sorry about that, I was wrong.

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