Wouldn't "A" be "A", because it is a subset of 1024? Looks more like obfuscation code for me.
Wouldn't "A" be "A", because it is a subset of 1024? Looks more like obfuscation code for me.
They just mean that the alphabet they use has N glyphs in it to represent the numbers 0-N. For example, base10 can be:
0123456789 or qwertyuiop or abcdefghij or ...
The ASCII datum "A" doesn't turn to "A" in Base64, and in fact it doesn't turn to any specific Base64 code. In a stream of 8 bit characters where "A" occurs, that "A" byte will be split into two 6-bit groups in one of three ways: 2-6, 4-4 or 6-2. In those groups that get only 2 or 4 bits of that "A", there will likely be other non-zero bits from adjacent characters/data which help determine the code. In base 1024, we have 10 bit units that can be packed with data.
The Base64 code letter "A" is the first entry in the Base64 table table; it corresponds to zero: a sequence of six zero bits.