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# Base 62
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## Introduction of base 62
- Encodes to `[a-zA-Z0-9]` which works well for urls, eliminating the need for escaping special characters
- Only one hash result for the original input and and the operation is deterministic (no randomness involved)
- Base 64 is another popular encoding but provides issues for urls because of the additional `+` and `/` characters