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Base58 versus Base85 Encoding
Base58 and Base85 can easily be confused and they differ in subtle ways.
The symbols for the “digits” 0 through 57 are chosen to avoid typographically similar letters. In some early computer systems, integers would not be expressed in binary per se. To encode CAFEBABECAFEBABE hex in Base85 we do not convert the number to base 85.
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