Pick a number from 1-100.
Your pretty limited in your options if you only use digits, as you have 10*10 choices as each digit can only be a number.
If you replace the numbers with letters, you have 26*26 (676) options (a-z..a-z).
If you use numbers and letters, you have 36*36 (1296) options.
If you add just the symbols you can get with shift and numbers, you get 46*46, 2116.
Each additional character/option increases the number of possible passwords by a significant amount.
Keep in mind that’s only referring to 2 character passwords.
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