Text Encoded Base 64 Numbers (Ten64)
draft-morgan-ten64-00
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| Author | Scott Morgan | ||
| Last updated | 2026-10-03 (Latest revision 2026-04-01) | ||
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Abstract
Ten64 is a positional numeral system for representing numeric values with an alphabet of 64 characters (aka. radix/base 64). However, unlike most positional number systems, the characters are written in ascending (aka. big-endian, network-order) and NOT descending order. The main differences are the use of sextets (six bits) instead of octets (aka. bytes). Similar to hexadecimal, Ten64 can be used to create binary strings of arbitrary length. Ten64 can encode one or more Modern Western Numbers (aka. Arabic, Vedic), interpreting the characters respective composite big-endian binary as a one or more Modern Western Numbers. The motivation for Ten64 is to encode numbers in a compact and human- readable format similar to Base58. However, Ten64 is designed to be optimized for use with numbers commonly used in identifiers, such as DIDs, DOIDs, IANA OIDs, UUIDs, dates, time(stamp)s, points, and more. Unlike Base58, and more like hexadecimal Ten64 aligns the Modern Western Numerals with the respective big-ending binary (i.e.; 0 → 0, 1 → 1, 2 → 11, etc). Finally, Ten64 provides a disk-based number encoding system for huge numbers and number streams.
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