I was scratching my head trying to understand where some of the
bits went in a Nano ID. A Nano ID is 16 characters from the
[Crockford base 32 alphabet][1]. Since 2**5 == 32
, this means each
character comes with 5 bits, for a total of 80 bits (5 * 16
).
However a UUID has 128 bits, so 3 out of every 8 bits are missing.