the package chewingum contains two main programs:
- base62
- chew
They have been implemented in perl.
Base62 has been coded in c++ too.
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...