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Base64 is a binary-to-text encoding scheme that represents binary data in an ASCII string format by translating it into a radix-64 representation. It is commonly used when there is a need to encode binary data that needs to be stored and transferred over media that are designed to deal with text.
Base64 encoding converts binary data into a set of 64 different ASCII characters: A-Z, a-z, 0-9, +, and /. Each Base64 digit represents exactly 6 bits of data. This means that every 3 bytes of binary data (24 bits) can be represented as 4 Base64 digits (4 × 6 = 24 bits).
The Base64 index table:
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