A 12.5% increase, or 1/8. Yes, a little. Compared to, say, hexadecimal, which wo...

		layer8 55 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes A 12.5% increase, or 1/8. Yes, a little. Compared to, say, hexadecimal, which would be a 50% increase. Or URL percent-encoding, which would be a 125% increase.