...chew has been written to shorten long decimal integer numbers into base62 strings.
It's not a mere base conversion, because it doesn't use arithmetic inside its logic.
In this way it can convert very long numbers into strings quickly,
without overflows.
For example if I want to share an id using an url, this will make the url shorter.
the base62 program has been written to encode/decode files
into this format.
The syntax is similar to the popular base64 command line program.
Inside the package there is a working c++ version of the base62 algorithm.
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