In this day and age, it becomes nigh-on impossible to encode a person's age, by way of candles in a cake, as they get older. The more years a person accrues whilst staying alive, the more candles are necessary to represent their age! This standard aims to create a solution to the problem at hand, by switching from a unary representation of the age, to a binary representation.
This standard is backwards compatible with BCAES17: a valid BCAES17 birthday cake is a valid BCAES20 birthday cake.
The victim is (or victims are) hereby considered to be the person (or persons) whose birthday is (or birthdays are) currently being celebrated.