passed, but dont know meaning

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public static String generateRandomString() {

        return new BigInteger(130, new SecureRandom()).toString(36);
    }

could someone help me explaining what toString(36) meaning here

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Norbert Backend Developer

24 November 2022, 19:01

instead of 36 it should be 32

Rohit Aggarwal Backend Developer at Tekion Corp.

9 August 2020, 07:10

toString(36)

represents the radix, which means how many alphanumeric characters to consider. It will start with a and will go on till z but that only consists of 26 characters. After that java will consider digits from 0 to 9