• anton
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    3 months ago

    Because the other comment had a useless counterproductive step in it, namely base64.

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      3 months ago

      Maybe, but also I think I was looking at the raw ‘data bits’, not ‘binary’ data. It’s actually almost exactly 4GiB, even when dropping down to minimum error correction (1.7 GiB otherwise).

      (1454942×29531024÷1024÷10244.00

      Edit: So if alphanumeric mode could store lowercase letters, base64 would’ve stored more.