The HexaTriDecimal Numbering System
Najeeb Shaikh
Technical Communications Specialist | Developing API Documentation & UI Documentation | Documenting Business Processes | Strong Background In Software Engineering, Database Design, & Programming (C/C++/C#/Java/LISP/SQL)
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I recently needed to generate unique and incremental strings that could be used as unique ids for a project that I have been working on for some time now. I need to have a unique string ids for objects as they get created, and they have to be short and capable of being incremented or decremented, and also comparable with both their own type as well as bare strings.
A good application of this might be something like the urls you see in http://bit.ly. For example, my open source project's wiki on GitHub can be accessed using the the url http://bit.ly/2z9Y7IV.
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