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Line 3: [[Category:Checksums]] The popular enconding of ~~litle~~small and medium-sized [[:Category:Checksums\|checksums]] is [[wp:base16\|base16]], that is more compact tham usual base10 and is human readable... For checksums resulting in ''hash digests'' bigger tham ~100 bits, the base16 is too long: [[wp:base58\|base58]] is shorter and (aswhen using good ~~Bitcoin-~~alphabet~~-base58~~) preserves secure human readability. The most popular alphabet of base58 is the used in bitcoin address (see [[Bitcoin/address validation]]), so it is the "default base58 alphabet". Write a program that takes a checksum (resultant hash digest) ''integer binary'' representation as argument, and converts (encode it) into base58 with the standard Bitcoin alphabet — which uses an alphabet of the characters 0 .. 9, A ..Z, a .. z, but without the four characters 0, O, I and l. The ''reference algorithm'' is at [https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Base58Check_encoding#Base58_symbol_chart the Bitcoin's Base58Check page].

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