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Base 36 constructor #48
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Hello, For input, you have 0b101010101010 and 0xa6e etc etc..
You have the ability to do const b36 = BitSet('10101010110101010101010101010').toString(36)
But not sure how to get it back in const bs = BitSet(b36)
I am sure you are gonna say it's not possible.. but I just wanted to confirm that something like BitSet(b36, 36) didn't exist?
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infusion commentedon Jun 1, 2023
Well, Bitset.js has two static functions
BitSet.fromHexStringand BitSet.fromBinaryString. Currently there is no option for an arbitrary base, but I think it would be a nice addition. Maybe something likeBitSet.fromString(str, base)`, what do you think?WORMSS commentedon Jun 1, 2023
Constructor, static function, I am easy either way.. ❤️
I was just looking through your
parse(P, val)to see if it was possible.. I got a little confused by thelen = 8for hexidecimal part, so I was unsure what would be needed for passing in36or even arbitrary lengths..infusion commentedon Jun 1, 2023
The
lenis just max block length, that is cut out at each time. For base 2 it's 32, for 16 it's 8, for a general basebit would beMath.log(2**32) / Math.log(b). However, this only makes sense for2^k-bases with the current implementation. And I think implementing a static function is much cleaner, instead of coming up with an arbitrary prefix, such as36:XYZor something.