From: Zackery Spytz <zspytz@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 00:08:54 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: bpo-27846: Delete incorrect note in base64 docs (GH-5666)
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bpo-27846: Delete incorrect note in base64 docs (GH-5666)

This note incorrectly stated that "Base64 has an expansion factor of 6
to 4" (it is actually 4 to 3). It was decided to remove the note.
---

diff --git a/Doc/library/base64.rst b/Doc/library/base64.rst
index ceecf17cba..ad9f5f58be 100644
--- a/Doc/library/base64.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/base64.rst
@@ -218,14 +218,6 @@ The modern interface provides:
    .. versionadded:: 3.4
 
 
-.. note::
-   Both Base85 and Ascii85 have an expansion factor of 5 to 4 (5 Base85 or
-   Ascii85 characters can encode 4 binary bytes), while the better-known
-   Base64 has an expansion factor of 6 to 4.  They are therefore more
-   efficient when space expensive.  They differ by details such as the
-   character map used for encoding.
-
-
 The legacy interface:
 
 .. function:: decode(input, output)